Motivation
In the end we need to come up with a consensus on what should be in the technical documentation. In order to prevent disussing things in circles this process is proposed.
The process
- If no document about what you want to define is not present yet, create one
- If a document does exist, add comments on the wiki page to it.
- Announce your changes or creation on the Technical Action Google Group. Add a prefix of "RFC:" to it.
- Announce this request for comments on the DataPortability blog.
- Optionally announce it on your blog and other places.
- After a week of discussion summarize the changes which came out of the discussion and incorporate it into the the document. Post it to the Technical Action Google Group and ask for votes.
- People vote on it by saying +1 or -1 (or 0) for 3 days.
- If there is a majority, it is passed. If not go back to RFC mode.
- If it passed change the original document to contain the new text. Remove the comments and set the status to "final".
States of a document
Draft : It's in the process of being written
RFC: It's in the week of receiving comments
Vote: It's in the process of being voted on (3 days)
Final: It passed and is official.
Metadata
| Status | RFC |
| Deadline RFC | May 24th 2008, 12PM GMT |
| RFC Post | Google Group |
| Deadline Voting | May 27th 2008 12PM GMT |
| Authors | Christian Scholz |
| Date |