Reopen RFCs that were postponed until after 1.0

[HeroesGrave]

There seems to be a few RFCs that have fallen under the radar since they were postponed until after 1.0.

It would probably be a good idea to reopen some/most/all of them.

[White-Oak]

👍 especially interested in this postponed RFC.

[ticki]

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues?q=label%3Apostponed+is%3Aclosed

[White-Oak]

So, erhm... Any progress?

[burdges]

Isn't that particular one open under #1037 @White-Oak ?

Appears many are superseded if you look closely.

[steveklabnik]

I don't think just opening RFCs again is always useful; the authors may not care about / be involved anymore. Plus, things may have changed since then, which requires a lot of re-writing, which basically is a new RFC anyway.

I would suggest either 1) writing new RFCs and linking to the postponed ones or 2) if the RFC still fits as today and the author wants it re-opened, comment and we can do it.

[ticki]

@steveklabnik I've checked, and many of the postponed RFCs are not outdated, and still relevant today.

[ticki]

Another possibility is to fork their repo and resend the pull request, changing things that needs update.

[petrochenkov]

@steveklabnik
Could you remove the postponed label from #867, #933 and #94?
They are all implemented now.

I would suggest either 1) writing new RFCs and linking to the postponed ones

+1, all the RFC texts are pretty old and require update and in many cases rework.

[steveklabnik]

Done.

[glaebhoerl]

I think we should have some sort of process innovation around postponement, such as automatically re-opening for consideration a fixed time (perhaps chosen at the time of postponement) afterwards, even if the decision at that time is only to re-postpone, as a form of triage, because in many cases the practical outcome of postponement seems to be not very different from that of rejection.

(Was originally going to write this in #1303 before I remembered about this issue.)

[nrc]

Anyone is free to open an RFC at any time, including re-opening a postponed one. If there is no-one motivated to do that, then that seems an indication that the RFC is not ready to be re-opened automatically.

[Centril]

Triage: Closing this since we didn't do it.