Hi all,
Background
@kmccormick and I had a brainstorming session about OEP-1; the impetus was how much confusion and inaccuracy I had seen in the document when I was first asked to be an Arbiter, and then later on wrote an OEP of my own. We sought to note down what in the document felt not true to current practice, as well as what could be simplified or clarified.
We came up with a mini-epic of work, which you can see at tcril-engineering#128.
I have drafts up for 6 of 8 writing change tasks we thought of (Kyle is writing the other two, and we have a few more tasks to clean up the OEPs if our change proposals are accepted).
Ask: Arbiter?
My changes go from reasonably uncontroversial to potentially so. I would love to have an Arbiter who would help both myself and Kyle get our changes through. Of the original Authors and Arbiters, only @feanil and @nedbat are around - tagging you both in case you’d like to help. But anyone in the community can be an Arbiter, and it’s a good chance to interact with the community a bit more.
Current Changes
Here are the changes currently up for review, roughly least to most controversial:
- Codify the Change History section for all OEPs by sarina · Pull Request #297 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub
- Add tl;dr section to OEP-1 by sarina · Pull Request #298 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub
- Provide tl;dr of Arbiter role by sarina · Pull Request #299 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub
- In OEP-1, codify that Process OEPs can change by sarina · Pull Request #300 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub
- Clarify OEP update procedures by sarina · Pull Request #301 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub - both make it easier to follow the update process, and remove the centering of the original OEP arbiter from future decisions. It does add the provision of explicitly reaching out to original Authors & Arbiters.
- Switch author-ownership model to a community-stewardship one by sarina · Pull Request #302 · openedx/open-edx-proposals · GitHub
Review Period
Until Friday, 25 Feb, 0900 EST
Thank you for your consideration!