Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

This is the Git repository containing Fediverse Enhancment Proposals (FEPs).

A Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) is a document that provides information to the Fediverse community. The goal of a FEP is to improve interoperability and well-being of diverse services, applications and communities that form the Fediverse.

The FEP Process is an initiative of the SocialHub developer community, a liaison of the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group. For ongoing and past discussion see the SocialHub FEP category.

Submitting a FEP

Do you have an idea, opinion or information that you want to share with the wider Fediverse community? You may do so with a Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP).

To create and submit a FEP:

1. Fork this repository, and then clone it to your local machine. Check the Codeberg Cheat sheet on how to prepare your Pull Request.
2. Think of a title for the FEP you want to submit.
3. Compute the identifier of the FEP by computing the hash of the title. This can be done with following Unix command:

$ echo -n "The title of my proposal" | sha256sum | cut -c-4
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4. Create a subdirectory of fep/ using the identifier you just computed.

5. Copy the FEP template (fep-xxxx-template.md) to this subdirectory and change the filename appropriately.

6. Use the identifer as the "slug" when filling out the frontmatter.

   • For example, if your computed identifier was abcd, then your file would be located at fep/abcd/fep-abcd.md and your frontmatter would include slug: "abcd".

7. Write down your idea in the newly created file and commit it to a new branch in your repository (ex. fep-xxxx).

8. When you are ready to submit the FEP, change the value of dateReceived field in the frontmatter to the current date.

9. Create a discussion topic for your FEP. You can use ActivityPub category on the SocialHub forum.

10. Add discussionsTo field containing the URL of the discussion topic to the front matter of your FEP.

11. Create a Pull Request to complete Step 1 of FEP-a4ed: The Fediverse Enhancement Proposal Process. Further process is described in FEP-a4ed.

Alternatively to steps 3. to 6., you can run

./scripts/new_proposal.py TITLE OF YOUR PROPOSAL

that should create a prefilled template for you.

Facilitators

The list of FEP's is maintained by the facilitators who are listed in the FACILITATORS.md file. Facilitators are neutral custodians of the FEP process, who merge PR's and create tracking issues.

Contributing

Do you have ideas to improve the FEP Process? Post your suggestions to the issue tracker, or on the SocialHub forum. The SocialHub developer community is a "DoOcracy" which means: "pick up any task you want, and then steer it to completion". Your contributions are most welcome, so delve in and find out how you can help.

FEPs

License

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