how to submit a proposal for ECMAScript 7?

# Assulin, Ohad (11 years ago)

Quick question, I would love to submit a feature proposal for ECMAScript 7 (Function Annotation)

What is the exact process? Is there any template I can use?

# David Bruant (11 years ago)

What is the exact process?

People usually just write their proposal in a post to es-discuss or as a gist in markdown format and post the link to es-discuss. But use whatever is most convenient to you as long as it's easy to read for everyone. Some proposals start in the wiki, but only members of TC39 have write access to it.

As far as a "formal" process up to the spec, the proposal will be discussed by TC39 at one or several meetings (one every 2 months) and formal decisions of acceptance are decided there. In the vast majority of cases, a lot of discussion happens before these meetings on es-discuss (and after based on the meeting notes).

Is there any template I can use?

I don't think so. You can read pages on the wiki (accepted proposals) to see how they are usually structured, but I think it's more a convention.

As far as content is concerned, I recommend explaining use cases, explaining how the feature is a significant improvement, explore related work. For function annotations, I imagine some folks have already done such work with custom comment grammar and it'd be nice to see what people came up with, hopefully what error they made so the built-in feature doesn't reproduce the same errors, etc.