I’ve been thinking about a possible change to the rfcbot fcp process:
Rather than being opened with a specific direction in mind (merge or close), I think proposing FCP should allow each team member to say “merge” or “close”, and then the team needs consensus to move forward in that direction. If all but 1-2 members of the team say “close” and the remainder don’t respond, then it closes (as today); if all but 1-2 members of the team say “merge” and the remainder don’t respond, then it merges (as today), but if all but 1-2 members of the team say one direction and 1-2 say the other direction then the process continues until there’s a consensus, treating the divergence as indicating objections.
That would avoid the “inevitable momentum” problem where it feels like there’s no way to change direction once a direction is set.