On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:36:43PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
The current proposal process requires that both a ticket is created and a mailing list post sent at the start of the proposal. The ticket creation means: * Redundant work is done: The same information is repeated in two places * Some replies end up on the list, while others end up as a ticket comment * Tickets for rejected or abandoned proposals tend to hang around, cluttering up the bug tracker
These are all good points. One thing the ticket system does do is provide a place to put the diff, and I think that's useful: it makes it easy for others to try out the change, and provides a concrete basis for the discussion. Indeed it would be useful for the proposer to update this diff if the proposal changes.