Talk:Requests for comment/Archive

People to consult with or look for a decision from
"Look for the decision from Tim Starling, Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma." Within particular areas of MediaWiki development, aren't there sometimes other people who handle the decisions, or at least are helpful people to go to first? E.g. on database matters, people used to say to consult binasher (before he left). Can we come up with a more comprehensive list of who to talk about particular subjects? Leucosticte (talk) 06:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

RFC vs. going straight to Bugzilla
When is it appropriate to create an RFC, and when should one simply go straight to Bugzilla? Bugzilla is a suitable venue for discussing implementation options too, isn't it? It's also a place where people can debate whether a change should be implemented at all, or whether it should be WONTFIXed. Leucosticte (talk) 02:30, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Leucosticte: This is a good question. I think that it's harder to embed diagrams into a wiki page, or to mark multiple people as responsible for different components of an RFC, or to properly update what's being discussed (you can edit a wikified RFC but you can't update the initial comment 0 in a Bugzilla bug). I don't have the best answer, though. Sharihareswara (WMF) (talk) 16:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Calling for the question
Is there a way to call for the question? How do we close debate and make a decision? If people are ready to code, it seems undesirable that discussions remain open for years without the proposals being either accepted or rejected. Leucosticte (talk) 03:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Never mind; the architecture meetings would seem to be how that's done. Leucosticte (talk) 16:44, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

would be nice to have better RFC template/formatting
It would be great if templates made it easy to get from the RFC to all relevant discussions offwiki. And I've found that documents like this are a lot easier to read if there's attention to formatting, a good Table of Contents, well-placed slots for diagrams and easy-on-the-eyes code examples, and so on. Sumana Harihareswara, Engineering Community Manager (talk) 04:55, 14 January 2014 (UTC)