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Document describing the process for making changes to ECMA-262
https://tc39.es/process-document/
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Dates of feature freeze for each version of specification #7

Closed chicoxyzzy closed 9 months ago

chicoxyzzy commented 8 years ago

Are there any dates of feature freeze? It'll be helpful to add this info to Process Document.

All I found is that

TC39 may submit for approval to the Ecma General Assembly a new Edition of the ECMAScript language in March and September of every year. Additions which have been accepted by the committee as “finished” (stage 4) may be included in a new Edition.

But it's not clear what's happening on March and on September.

allenwb commented 8 years ago

see first few slides of https://github.com/tc39/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2015-01/jan2015-allen-slides.pdf

ecmageneva commented 8 years ago

Well, this means that anything that is finished by TC39 can go twice a year for Ecma General Assembly (which are always in June and in December) approval. In practice so far TC39 used the March TC39 approval and the following June GA approval. Basically on the specs that were approved by TC39 in March no further work is done, but work on anything else which is for later TC39 and GA approval work can be processed.
Kind regards, Istvan

bterlson commented 8 years ago

I have updated the process document under the Spec Revisions and Scheduling heading. Please let me know any thoughts (or just submit a PR to fix it).

chicoxyzzy commented 8 years ago

Just to clarify, January meeting is a last chance for stage 3 proposals to be promoted to stage 4 and get into ES2017 right?

bterlson commented 8 years ago

@chicoxyzzy Correct, although November would be better for huge features...

ctcpip commented 9 months ago

I believe we have clarity on this these days, with approval of the yearly standards. It's also not of much consequence, as ECMA-262 and ECMA-402 are living standards.