Thanks, Jean, great to see progress on this.
--Richard

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM Jean Mahoney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The RPC agrees and has added this experiment to its GitHub roadmap:
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rpc/wiki/doku.php?id=rpc_github_roadmap
>
> We plan to start accepting documents for this in a few weeks. We will be
> asking authors if they want to participate via our intake form when
> their documents enter the queue.
>
> Best regards,
> Jean
>
> On 10/7/25 2:32 PM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > That should be "+1".
> >
> > On 07.10.2025 21:21, Eliot Lear wrote:
> >>
> >> =1
> >>
> >> On 07.10.2025 20:58, Richard Barnes wrote:
> >>> It seems like we're deep enough in "it MIGHT be a problem" territory
> >>> here that we should just run the experiment, see if there's a
> >>> problem, and if there is, fix it.
> >>>
> >>> --Richard
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>         Hi Eric,
> >>>
> >>>         On 07.10.2025 20:09, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>         I'm struggling to understand the concern here, given that the
> >>>>         current approved email flow involves the editors sending
> >>>>         text in OLD/NEW format, which is essentially what GitHub
> >>>>         suggestions are. There's no ambiguity about the desired
> >>>>         new state and if they are committed it's trivial to see what
> >>>>         changed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>         That's not ENTIRELY the case (so to speak). Sometimes there
> >>>         are some global changes with cassification, spelling and
> >>>         such, requiring rebasing, etc.
> >>>
> >>>     Are you talking about cases in which the RPC made some change
> >>>     that the author wants reversed globally? Yes, I agree that in that
> >>>     case you wouldn't use suggestions. But you also wouldn't attach
> >>>     a PR update, you would tell the RPC in text to reverse it.
> >>>
> >>>     I don't see why this would require a rebase, though.
> >>>
> >>>         I'm *fully confident* the RPC is up to managing that, btw, in
> >>>         terms of finding the best work flow (like maybe ordering PR
> >>>         processing). And I don't want to make a mountain out of a
> >>>         mole hill, but there will probably be times when
> >>>         ```suggestion doesn't QUITE cut it, and we shouldn't rely on
> >>>         it as the only means for changes.
> >>>
> >>>     Nor am I suggesting that.
> >>>
> >>>     -Ekr
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>         Regards,
> >>>
> >>>         Eliot
> >>>
> >>>
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