Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-12 Thread Robert Newson
Hi, I like the idea of RFC's and agree with Joan that they should help with the actual (and perceived) gaps in cooperation from large corporate vendors. I would like to see a mandatory "Security Considerations" section added to the template. Not every RFC will have anything to say on the

Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-11 Thread Joan Touzet
Hi Paul, As you know, I try my hardest to post well-researched comments to this mailing list, and this time I fell short of that. Please accept my apologies. Let me try and re-frame the problem, and respond to your criticisms. My point is: we need more public design discussions and review, and

Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-08 Thread Joan Touzet
a GH Issue monitoring bot? -Joan - Original Message - > From: "Jan Lehnardt" > To: "CouchDB Developers" , "Joan Touzet" > > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:33:00 AM > Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process > > I’m fa

Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
I’m favour of all that’s outlined here. Thanks for getting this written up, Joan! Best Jan — > On 5. Feb 2019, at 19:27, Joan Touzet wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > One thing that has plagued the CouchDB project for a while is the > introduction of new features without much discussion prior to

Re: [DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-06 Thread Ilya Khlopotov
Thank you Joan for proposing this process. It looks great. > For me, the question that remains is: at what point do we REQUIRE the > proposed RFC process to be followed? When is a change "substantial?" And > I think that it may be sufficient at this point to leave it grey-area, > with the PMC

[DISCUSSION] Proposed new RFC process

2019-02-05 Thread Joan Touzet
Hi everyone, One thing that has plagued the CouchDB project for a while is the introduction of new features without much discussion prior to the feature landing. To put all the cards on the table: it is good that IBM/Cloudant have been benevolent and have contributed significant new