Re: [TCLCORE] Unicode in Tcl 9 - a commentary and critique

[Poor Y. <org...@po...>]

On 2023-01-30 03:16, Steve Landers wrote:
...
> 
> If this is something that you, Jan, Ashok, Nathan, Harald and others
> support then we could schedule a meeting at a suitable time using the
> Zoom channel.  If we go down this path I would encourage all TCT
> members to be present if possible.
> 

It does seem that lack of communication, or lack of constructive 
communication,
is one of the issues.  Some fact-to-face meetings could be the key, and 
more
ongoing communication, either on this mailing list or on #tcl could also 
be
helpful.  For me the mailing list is higher-friction thatn #tcl, because 
I
don't want to send out a mail unless I've done a good amount of thinking 
about
it first.  Sometimes that's the right thing, but sometimes brainstorming
together is useful, and that doesn't happen so much on the mailing list.

Another thing is that TIPs are useful for voting purposes, but not 
always so
useful for working though trouble spots during development.  I would 
propose
that this issue could be solved by working on a branch off trunk 
dedicated to
it until everyone is happy with that branch.  It could be one of the two 
I've
created for the purpose, or a new one started by someone else.  Such a 
branch
could also provide something constructive to talk about, and maybe 
encourage
people that don't always directly hack on Tcl to jump in too.

One reason I propose a branch off trunk is that I think Tcl 9 should be
relatively free of the baggage needed in 8.7, but when working forward 
from 8.7
to 9.0, that baggage also has a tendency to move forward.


-- 
Yorick