Congratulations for these big "process" steps - great! Scott
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > In the last weeks we have been exploring ways to improve our technical > consensus building and decision making process. I wrote a short RFC > [1] describing some issues, and proposed to adopt ideas from the Rust > community [2] to address them. The discussion on the task and in an > IRC meeting showed broad support for the proposals. > > In yesterday's architecture committee meeting, we decided to adopt > much of the Rust RFC decision making process [3] on a trial basis. > Concretely, this means: > > - We will nominate a member of the architecture committee as a > shepherd, guiding an active RFC through the process. Among other > things, the shepherd is responsible for informing all relevant > stakeholders of the ongoing discussion on the task. The shepherd might > also lead an IRC discussion on the RFC, which will be summarized on > the task. > > - Once the discussion on a task plateaus or stalls, the shepherd (in > coordination with the RFC author(s)) announces and widely publicizes a > "Final Comment Period", which is one week. > > - At the end of the "Final Comment Period", the architecture committee > decides based on the points made in the RFC discussion, and justifies > its decision based on the overall project principles and priorities. > If any new facts or aspects are surfaced in this discussion, a new > Final Comment Period needs to be started before making a decision. > > For now, we are holding off on the second part of the RFC, the > introduction of working groups. There is agreement that we need to > broaden the involvement and scale the process, but the details of how > are still under discussion. > > Gabriel > > [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Governance > [2]: > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust-governance.md > [3]: > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1068-rust-governance.md#decision-making > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - 415 480 4577 - http://scottmacleod.com - Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) - World University and School - via PayPal, or credit card, here - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - or send checks to - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
