Tim This sounds great. I've always felt the RFC process was a bit of a black box of no return. I think regular triage of these and closing/progressing these is much needed and will be a hugely positive thing.
I'm looking forward to seeing this progress! On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Lanphier has asked that the WMF architects -- namely Brion Vibber, > Mark Bergsma, Asher Feldman and myself -- take a leading role in > accepting or rejecting RFCs, or delegating that decision as appropriate. > > Along these lines, I'd like to add an header template to every RFC > indicating its status as determined by one of these architects or the > people to whom they delegate authority. The header would indicate not > only status (mirroring the index page) but also the name of the person > who chose that status. > > Seeking consensus has always been a key part of my work on MediaWiki. > I expect that a large part of assigning a status to an RFC will simply > be to evaluate the comments of the participants, or to seek comments > from specific domain experts where none have been given. > > Many RFCs are just "good ideas", often attracting no comment because > there is no obvious criticism of the feature at the level of detail > given by the proposer. This raises the question of whether an RFC is a > feature request (like a Bugzilla enhancement) or a design document. If > an RFC is a design document, then we might ask for more detail about > feature implementation, and close the RFC if none is given. This may > lead to the closure of RFCs which have no interest or support from > developers. I'm inclined to think that this is an appropriate path to > take, i.e. that RFCs should be design documents, but I am interested > to hear comments on the subject. > > Please comment here or on > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment> > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
