The second review of SE-0291: Package Collections, begins now and runs through December 7, 2020.
Based on the feedback from the pitch and first review, the core team feels the ideas behind Package Collections are useful and put the Swift Packages ecosystem on the right path.
However, during the first review, several community members requested to learn more about the Package Collection data format. The core team felt the proposal should be amended to explicitly call out if the data format is part of the feature specification or not, and provide reasoning for its inclusion or exclusion.
The proposal was amended [1][2] to include this information, as well as address other feedback from the first review, and is now ready for a second review.
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What goes into a review of a proposal?
The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of Swift.
When reviewing a proposal, here are some questions to consider:
- What is your evaluation of the proposal?
- Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?
- Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?
- If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?
- How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?
Thank you for helping improve the Swift programming language and ecosystem.
Tom Doron
Review Manager
[1] Amendment to SE-0291 Package Collections by yim-lee · Pull Request #1207 · apple/swift-evolution · GitHub
[2] Update package collections proposal with revisions by neonichu · Pull Request #1208 · apple/swift-evolution · GitHub