An experimental repository for collecting Rayon RFCs. Rayon RFCs are proposals to alter the rayon APIs. They are meant to gather feedback and collect constraints, as well as to bikeshed various API options.
The text below is preliminary. We've not really done any RFCs yet and we don't quite know what process we want. The idea is to start off with a few "seed RFCs" and gain experience before we start fielding many RFCs.
First, hop onto the Rayon Gitter channel and run the idea by somebody
in the Rayon core team. If there is general agreement that the idea
is worth pursuing, then you can go ahead and open a PR that adds a new
file to the accepted directory, starting from the
template. Tag the PR with a subject line like "[WIP] My
great idea". Opening early helps make the process more
collaborative. We can discuss on the PR itself and ultimately reach
some sort of consensus.
As with Rust RFCs, the intention is for discussion to reach a "general consensus" -- not necessarily about the outcome but about the contours of the solution space. In other words, a general agreement as to the pros and cons of each alternative, if not necessarily the relative importance of those pros and cons. Ulimately, decisions regarding Rayon APIs are decided via the Rayon core team. The reasoning of those decisions will always be laid out in comments on the RFC itself.
The Rayon core team currently consists of nikomatsakis and cuviper.