@eyeintheskyThe Eye

I am a former facilitator of SocialHub and part of the FEP team.

The whole idea of the FEP process is that it is accessible to all fedizens, and anyone can take the initiative and write, submit, and guide their own FEP document towards a FINAL status.

It is recommended practice to introduce a new FEP to the SocialHub developer forum for discussion, which the FEP forum category federates out. The forum thus also serves as an archive of past discussions around ActivityPub / fediverse evolution.

However, it is not *required* to discuss on SocialHub should you not want to do so for some reason. I'd say it has the disadvantage that it fragments discussion and it becomes harder to parse the 'body' of FEP's created over time. People would have to use the tracking issue accompanying a FEP to figure out where to discuss things.

But the freedom to choose is the important part. It helps lower the barrier to write FEP's.

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