IDE Team Design Process

Discussions / Issues

The goal is that contributors can create and discuss feature suggestions without needing to have everything fully figured out. Feel free to file a new Github issue or start a discussion. These conversations can continue at their own pace until contributors feel ready to make a more formal proposal.

Proposals

Adding a proposal

For a feature proposal to be reviewed, a Github issue needs to be created that has the following items in its description. If these aren't there to start they eventually need to be appended as a comment to the issue before its brought up for discussion.

• Summary: Brief summary of what this proposal is about.
• Background and Motivation: What is the problem we are solving and in what context did you encounter it?
• Proposed Feature: How the proposed solution solves the problem?
• Alternative Designs: Were there other options you considered? How does this compare to features in other editors?

Once you've added the details for your feature tag a member of the Roslyn-IDE team and they will add the "Feature Request" label to your Github issue.

Getting the issue championed by the IDE team

A member of Roslyn-IDE will need to decide to "champion" that feature proposal and bring it for discussion by adding it to the "On Deck" tab in the IDE Design Review project. Behind the scenes the IDE Team generally meets once a week to discuss these issues.