Feature Plan/Proposal Guidelines

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This page is intended as a guide for submitting new proposals

Format

Your page should adhere to the following format outlined below, providing enough structured information to give the development teams and the community an unambiguous understanding of your ideas. Please include:

Title

Summary

This is a one to two sentence recap of the overall idea of your proposal

Rationale

This is the reasoning for introducing the proposal. Use cases may be cited as examples

Status

Since your are currently drafting your idea, this should be Drafting with the last date modified, and your username

Detailed Description

Expand on your summary in the previous section in more detail here. This is where the more details points of design will reside.

Implementation

Include a technical outline of the implementation overview. Any packages, or dependencies that will be affected should be addressed in this section.

Outstanding Issues

If any issues are outstanding in your proposal, mention them here for further discussion.

Assignee

Since you are currently drafting your idea, this should be unassigned

Documentation/Links

Any relevant resources that might be helpful to clarify your proposal

Comments

Any thoughts that you have that do not fall under any of the previously mentioned sections.