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[PATCH v2 0/1] Add Request-For-Comment process.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Noé Lopez <noe <at> xn--no-cja.eu>, 74736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbanes.net>, Steve George <steve <at> futurile.net>
Subject: [bug#74736] [PATCH v2 0/1] Add Request-For-Comment process.
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:15:43 +0100

Hi,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Since (1) day-to-day contributions do not follow the RFC process and (2)
>> teams and consensus-based decision making are already defined (and went
>> through peer review), I think it makes more sense to build on these two
>> sections we already have.
>
> I still think the RFC process must contain its own “Decision Making”
> process and must not refer to external parts that could be changed
> without going via this RFC process.
>
> Somehow, from my point of view, it makes more sense to encode “Decision
> Making” or “Commit Access” or “Teams” via future RFCs than via sections
> in the manual.  And we need to bootstrap the “Decision Making”, no?

I agree that sections in the manual are suboptimal.  That is why I
proposed moving contributing.texi to a document of its own, which would
sit next to the RFC process document.  I don’t consider it a
prerequisite though.

> For sure, I agree that we do not build from nothing.  To me, this very
> first RFC makes explicit the structure we already have.  Maybe I
> misunderstand something, IMHO, we should avoid the temptation to say:
> Hey we already have a way to collaborate thus let implicitly rely on.
>
> Hum? 🤔 Somehow, I would find the RFC process incomplete without an
> explicit self-contained “Decision Making” section.

What I’d like to stress is that decision making also happens outside the
RFC process; not everything will go through the RFC process.  So we’ll
need to have that manual section for day-to-day contributions anyway.

But yeah, maybe we can have one specific to the RFC document, too.

Ludo’.

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