Shepherd Team
A team of 3-4 community members defined unanimously by the RFC Steering Committee, responsible for accepting or rejecting a specific RFC. This team is created per RFC from community members nominated in the discussion on that RFC.
This team should be people who are very familiar with the main components touched by the RFC. The author cannot be part of the Shepherd Team. In addition, at most half of the Shepherd Team can be part of the RFC Steering Committee.
The resposibility of the team is to guide the discussion as long as it is constructive, new points are brought up and the RFC is iterated on and from time to time summarise the current state of discussion. If this is the case no longer, then the Shepherd Team shall step in with a motion for FCP.
Shepherd Leader
The person in charge of the RFC process for a specific RFC, and responsible for ensuring the process is followed in a timely fashion. The Shepherd Leader has no special resposibility with regard to moving an undecided Shepherd Team to a certain decision.
Shepherds, please be reminded that it could make sense to have a chat on IRC or by video conference, to discuss your opinions and with the author to move this forward in an orderly and constructive way!
RFC 34 - Expression integrity
This RFC seeks to provide a strategy to allow NixOS to strongly attest who
authored a nix expression, who reviewed it, and that it has not been tampered
with outside the review flow.