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The process for submitting a Matrix Spec Change (MSC) Proposal is as follows:
The process for submitting a Matrix Spec Change (MSC) Proposal is as follows:
- produce a publicly-accessible proposal describing your change:
- produce a publicly-accessible proposal describing your change:
- Please use Google Docs, or an equivalent system capable of collaborative editing, with versioned history and threaded comments.
- Please use Google Docs, or an equivalent system capable of collaborative editing, with versioned history and threaded comments.
- We do not use Github issues (or Etherpad) for the design process of the proposal, as the document review/commenting capabilities aren't good enough.
- We do not use Github issues (or Etherpad) for the design process of the proposal, as the document review/commenting capabilities aren't good enough.
- We also don't jump straight to PRing against the spec itself, as it's much faster to iterate on a proposal in freeform document form than in the terse and formal structure of the spec.
- We also don't jump straight to PRing against the spec itself, as it's much faster to iterate on a proposal in freeform document form than in the terse and formal structure of the spec.
- In the proposal, please clearly state the problem being solved, and the possible solutions being proposed for solving it and their respective trade-offs.
- In the proposal, please clearly state the problem being solved, and the possible solutions being proposed for solving it and their respective trade-offs.
- Proposal documents are intended to be as lightweight and flexible as the author desires; there is no formal template; the intention is to iterate as quickly as possible to get to a good design.
- Proposal documents are intended to be as lightweight and flexible as the author desires; there is no formal template; the intention is to iterate as quickly as possible to get to a good design.
- make a new issue at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues (or modify an existing one), whose description should list the metadata as per below.
- make a new issue at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues (or modify an existing one), whose description should list the metadata as per below.
- Gather feedback as widely as possible from the community and core team on the proposal.
- Gather feedback as widely as possible from the community and core team on the proposal.
- The aim is to get maximum consensus on the trade-offs chosen to get an optimal solution.
- The aim is to get maximum consensus on the trade-offs chosen to get an optimal solution.
- Iterating on the proposal and gathering consensus can sometimes be time-consuming; an impartial 'shepherd' can be assigned to help guide the proposal through this process.
- Iterating on the proposal and gathering consensus can sometimes be time-consuming; an impartial 'shepherd' can be assigned to help guide the proposal through this process.
- Once the proposal has sufficient consensus and passed review, you **must** show an implementation to prove that it works well in practice, before a spec PR will be accepted. Iterate on the proposal if needed.
- Once the proposal has sufficient consensus and passed review, you **must** show an implementation to prove that it works well in practice, before a spec PR will be accepted. Iterate on the proposal if needed.
- Finally, please make a new spec PR which includes the changes as implemented against https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/tree/master/specification. This will then be reviewed and hopefully merged!
- Finally, please make a new spec PR which includes the changes as implemented against https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/tree/master/specification. This will then be reviewed and hopefully merged!
Ben Parsons
7 years ago