On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:46 AM Edward Diener via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
My point is that the history of what is said about a proposal by those either voting to accept or reject a proposal is not available in any form unless it is added to the proposal itself by someone. In your link I do not see the discussion about acceptance or rejection of the proposal by anyone, and if I look up most any given proposal, going back nnnn years ago I see nothing in the proposal itself explaining why it was accepted or rejected. Is it really too much to ask that the C++ standards committee keep a record of the discussion for a given proposal which tells why a proposal is accepted to rejected ?
It's a proposal that is under revision and not complete. It's a newer development in the committee process, but for this paper you can see most of the relevant vote history on github: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/511
I became concerned about this not as just a theoretical problem because an idea I had which I thought would improve C++ was proposed in an even better way 17 years ago and rejected, and yet there is zero information why the proposal was rejected. But I am trying not to focus on my idea but on the general issue that the reasons a proposal are accepted or rejected by the C++ standards committee is completely lost to anyone who was not there at the time when the proposal was "debated". I found this very poor in an age of digital information.
If you want something more than the votes, then that might fall into the 2% that needs a committee member to answer. And hopefully from this discussion, you know who to ask.