​​Design meeting: 2020-05-13 Lang Team Procedures

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​​Summary

  • ​​Create a PR with a summary with a summary so that we have something we can merge as a historical artifact
  • ​​Add “no real reaction” → Goes to a “past proposals” directory or something similarly non-judgemental
  • ​​Have some sort of way to dismiss things easily without prejudice, as practically most ideas we don’t have the bandwidth to make progress on
  • ​​ideally automated, but at least very easy =)
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​​Notes and minutes from meeting

  • ​​Goal: Lang team work happening more in project groups
  • ​​Help people write RFCs, and make sure that less high priority RFCs do not fall by the wayside
  • ​​Methods:
  • ​​Intercept earlier: Before the RFC
  • ​​Process:
  • ​​File an issue to lang team repo
  • ​​Option 1: Decline
  • ​​Option 2: Small and simple idea
  • ​​Covered in a PR
  • ​​Find a lang-team liaison (could be the filer)
  • ​​Option 3: More complex ideas
  • ​​Similar to project groups
  • ​​Things to discuss:
  • ​​The details of the steps
  • ​​What gets created at each step
  • ​​Managing proposals and visualizing the backlog
  • ​​Proposal:
  • ​​Incoming: Newly filed
  • ​​Happy path: Could move to backlog or active. 
  • ​​Active: Keep this small
  • ​​Backlog: Does not necessarily mean no work is done, but not active
  • ​​Github Projects?
  • ​​Collum per above category, label for liaison
  • ​​Load balancing between liaisons. 
  • ​​Where does discussion take place?
  • ​​What is kept out of the github issue, what is an internals thread, what about zulip?
  • ​​Long discussion summaries
  • ​​How should rejections be handled? Some sort of log?
  • ​​The backlog of unaddressed items
  • ​​Better in a separate place than the rfc repo, to keep rfcs separate
  • ​​Non judgemental close after a time period?
  • ​​Many things come up repeatedly
  • ​​Leaving something around may keep an active discussion
  • ​​Perhaps only uncommented recently and non-triaged?
  • ​​Reopen without perms?
  • ​​Keep the list clean with active issues
  • ​​Bot?
  • ​​Issues that become too controversial to make forward progress?\
  • ​​Different types of blockers: