[Bug 502429] [EDP] Add an optional RFC process to the EDP
Bugzilla Link | 502429 |
Status | NEW |
Importance | P3 normal |
Reported | Sep 28, 2016 10:10 EDT |
Modified | May 07, 2020 07:57 EDT |
Description
A lot of discussions are happening in various mailing lists (e.g., ide-dev), but very few lead to actual decisions.
In https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ide-dev/msg01391.html, Kaloyan made a very good point: other OSS communities works with a more formal process when it comes to changes. PHP uses RFC (links in mailing archive above), Python uses PEP (Python Enhancement Proposals - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/).
RFCs could also be way to foster a wider community to take part into the development. I propose to make it part of the EDP. Each project @ Eclipse could choose to use the Eclipse RFC process. Moreover, the release reviews would be facilitated.