RFC-000-Process-description.md

Process description

• RFC-Number: 000
• Status: Draft
• Created on: 25 Jan. 2019

Table of contents

• Process description
  • Description
  • Lifecycle
    • Everything starts as Draft
    • On to stabilization

Description

This document describes the RFC (Request For Comments) process that is used to document and specify the COMIT protocol. We are using an RFC process because we want the documentation and the process around it to be open-source and accessible to anyone.

Lifecycle

Everything starts as Draft

Anybody is welcome to submit an RFC to extend or change the COMIT protocol by opening a pull-request to this repository. All accepted changes will have status Draft. As long as an RFC is in Draft, new PRs can change it accordingly to reflect the newest findings of the discussions.

On to stabilization

Once all open issues have been resolved and no other objections are raised within a month, a stabilization PR can be opened. This PR MUST:

• close the discussion issue via Resolves #...
• apply the changes the PR documents to the registry
• change the status of the RFC to Final in the README and the RFC itself