Refining RFCs part 2: RFC staging

I actually think some non-GitHub system for tracking and searching RFCs, past and present, accepted and in-progress, would be a good idea. The accepted RFCs would be added to the rfcs repo as they are now, with the tracker providing information on where an RFC is in the process, and links to the relevant page for that phase. So, in the problem consensus and RFC drafting phases, it would be a link to the discussion page for the proto-RFC. In the RFC PR page, it would be a link to the PR. If a PR fails, that history of the failed PR would be kept in the tracker, so people can see a full history of the issue. In terms of management of this system, it would probably make the most sense for the shepherd of a particular RFC to update that RFCs history tracker. This system wouldn’t keep any of the materials directly, but would be a way to understand the history of an RFC’s processing, and to see where it is in the process.

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