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Decision for 0063: Criteria for Carbon to go public (#187)
* Decision for 0063: Going Public * Update proposals/p0063_decision.md Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com> * Update proposals/p0063_decision.md Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com> * Update p0063_decision.md * Update README.md Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Decision for: Criteria for Carbon to go public | ||
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Part of the Carbon Language project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM | ||
Exceptions. See /LICENSE for license information. | ||
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception | ||
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Proposal accepted on 2020-11-03 | ||
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Affirming: | ||
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- [chandlerc](https://github.com/chandlerc) | ||
- [gribozavr](https://github.com/gribozavr) | ||
- [josh11b](https://github.com/josh11b) | ||
- [noncombatant](https://github.com/noncombatant) | ||
- [tituswinters](https://github.com/tituswinters) | ||
- [zygoloid](https://github.com/zygoloid) | ||
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Abstaining: | ||
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- [austern](https://github.com/austern) | ||
- [geoffromer](https://github.com/geoffromer) | ||
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## Open questions | ||
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None. | ||
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## Rationale | ||
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"An open, inclusive process for Carbon changes" requires us to make the decision | ||
to go public in a clear and unsurprising way, with criteria that are written | ||
down. | ||
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Going public too early introduces risks to the long-term evolution and | ||
maintenance of the language by increasing the costs of the community members | ||
developing it. | ||
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Ensuring that Carbon meets its functional goals, especially that of | ||
interoperability and migration, will inherently require large scale | ||
experimentation that is infeasible to do without becoming public at some point. | ||
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The core team is aligned on the core policy decisions, which are: | ||
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- The decision to go public will go through the usual proposal process. | ||
- The structure of the proposal gives the things that we are looking for prior | ||
to going public. | ||
- We expect to delay announcing to the extent we can. | ||
- We do not expect that to be so late that everything is done and we are ready | ||
to ship. That is, we are not going to wait until version 1.0 is ready. | ||
- We don't expect this to be so late that Carbon is no longer an | ||
experiment. | ||
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Changes to the text and wording that align with these items should be submitted | ||
as code reviews. The core team members chandlerc and zygloid will both approve | ||
each code review. | ||
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An example change that would be covered by a code review: there will be no | ||
automatic going public just because the criteria are met -- it will be a | ||
decision of the core team. |