Design note catch-up

[Mark-Simulacrum]

Summary

Catch up on the 5 currently open design notes, and spend some time on a steady state process. Details to follow up.

• Question: Do these represent consensus?
  • These don't represent consensus around a particular design (that would be an RFC)
  • "Consensus" (or at least agreement) that they accurately represent the conversations
    • Response should just be to add
  • "Does everyone feel their points are represented?"
    • Seems excessive. We will have this discussion later.
    • Mark: I think having a lang team member look it over and say "seems all right" is good enough, they are ultimately a living document.
      • Someone can always make a PR with more.
    • Josh: my concern is that part of the point of this RFC is to to make sure positions don't get lost by the time an RFC comes up
      • We've sometimes had years pass.
  • Niko: Let's document the purpose ("these aim to capture design points, considerations, and don't represent consensus around a particular design")
    • and then assign to a person to merge when they feel ready
  • Mark: some of these have been open since Oct 2020!
    • having them get merged quickly will be more beneficial than having them sit around
  • Josh: may make sense to spend a bit of time in meeting
  • Mark: Scratch proposal:
    • I would file an issue to use a design meeting and spend some time this month to catch up
  • Josh: I do see value in having a lang team member to review it (also not the author)
  • Rough consensus:
    • Steady state process is to assign a reviewer

"Initial draft of copy ergonomics design note" lang-team#62

Link: #62

"Autoref/autoderef for operators" lang-team#63

Link: #63

"Auto trait design note" lang-team#69

Link: #69

"Add design notes for function-type Default implementation discussion" lang-team#71

Link: #71

"Add draft of variadic notes" lang-team#76

Link: #76

Background reading

TBD

About this issue

This issue corresponds to a lang-team design meeting proposal. It corresponds
to a possible topic of discussion that may be scheduled for deeper discussion
during one of our design meetings.

[nikomatsakis]

We did this in today's planning meeting.