Commits on Apr 22, 2024

1. Require BIPs be "beyond the ideation phase" before being merged …

   As the BIP process restarts, one general risk in the BIPs is that
   they become (even more of) a dumping ground for half-baked ideas
   which even the BIP champion does not work on after the BIP is
   assigned. While simply never merging new BIPs addresses this issue,
   this isn't particularly sustainable, and we should instead have
   some concrete criteria here.
   
   BIPs generally fall into a few categories with respect to when they
   should be considered ready for merge:
    * they're not particularly controversial (and not about consensus)
      and move forward towards adoption in several ecosystem projects
      relatively quickly or,
    * they generate lots of discussion, lots of feedback, the champion
      actively pushes the BIP forward and makes sustained arguments for
      adoption over some extended time period (this generally applies
      to consensus changes).
   
   As long as the BIP champion is relatively actively pushing for
   adoption (i.e. active on the BIP outside of the BIP text itself)
   and actively addressing feedback on the BIP, the BIP should be
   merged, however if the BIP hasn't seen any adoption anywhere
   (outside of maybe one project the author wrote) and the BIP
   champion is off doing other things, I'd argue it clearly should
   simply be closed.
   
   This commit adds some trivial but flexible text to that effect,
   requiring roughly the above criteria for merge.

   

   TheBlueMatt committed Apr 22, 2024
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