Re: Time for a request-for-comments process?

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com>]

Hello,

Em quarta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2021, às 19:28:14 -03, Katherine Cox-
Buday escreveu:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> > I think a major goal of the process would be to formalize a minimum
> > and a maximum duration under which an RFC is under evaluation, and a
> > mechanism to determine whether it’s accepted or withdrawn.
> 
> I think it's a good idea.

Me too.

> The only contribution I can give is that I
> would not have known =guix shell= was coming had I not been watching the
> patches list. So in addition to formalizing what you've mentioned, I
> suggest we also formalize a location to watch (guix-devel seems
> logical?).

I agree that guix-devel is a good place to announce new RFCs, probably 
using an eye-catching subject prefix so that we can more easily see and 
filter them.

For RFCs where users are also stakeholders, we should also announce in 
places where users are likely to see them, such as the info-guix and help-
guix mailing lists, and possibly even the Guix blog (how far out do we want 
to spread the word?).

“guix shell” would have been an RFC with users as stakeholders, but I can 
imagine others where that isn’t the case, such as some significant but 
internal code reorganization.
-- 
Thanks,
Thiago