We have some questions that have been open for a while, for example, what do we do about Poetry? #374

Personally, I don't know when we've reached consensus and can safely get going on the work. We have a lot of opinions to take in to account. What should our process be? What is the official channel that people should look to if they want to stay in the loop on decisions and make their voice heard? How do we unambiguously represent our vote? How long do we wait? How many / what ratio of people need to agree before we declare "consensus"?

How do we record our decisions? (Decision records! Decision records! 🎉 )

Personal opinion: We should avoid a "BDFL" role, but a designated tiebreaker to keep us from getting stuck on trivial things might be good (with the caveat that not all ties necessarily need to be broken in a timely manner, depending on the problem being solved).