[swift-evolution] Learning from SE-0025, a breeding group for Swift proposals

[David Waite]

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 1:00 AM, David Hart via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> All controversial proposals start their implementation in that version.

Just one more note here, in regards to SE-0025

Its important to realize that the swift evolution process isn’t a pure democracy, or even a democratic republic :-)

I personally suspect if '25 was truly controversial amongst the people who had proper votes (e.g. the core team), that it would not have been accepted. However, there was a desire to have such features. I think there may have been some pressure to have such a feature also included within the Swift 3 release, which was meant to be the last non-backward-source-compatible release.

I think SE-0169 and the limited choice within the Swift 4 (and all future Swift releases) exemplifies that desire by the core team - that model could be revised to allow splitting a type into extensions (in some contexts) without having to raise access control, and make the purpose of the different access control levels a bit clearer in the process.

IMHO, the current evolution process is not about letting the community vote, but to provide a larger pool of minds and eyes and recommendations to the core team.

-DW
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