Introducing “EIP Editing Office Hour”

Bi-weekly office hour organized with EIP Editors to support EIP Authors.

Original image: Priscilla Du Preez

Ethereum Cat Herders, a group of Ethereum community contributors, introduced “EIP Editors’ Apprenticeship Meetings” in November 2021 to invite participation to become EIP editor.

Thanks to Matt Garnett to mentor interested contributors in becoming EIP reviewers. Recording of earlier meetings can be found here.

Achievements of the EIP Editors’ Apprenticeship Meetings

Since 2021, we have onboarded 2 new EIP Editors:

1. Sam Wilson
2. Gavin John

We have 5 active EIP editors as listed on EIP-1 for reviewing upcoming proposals and have encouraged many community contributors to review Pull Request at the EIP GitHub repository

Frequently Asked Questions on EIP reviewing are documented in EIP editor “apprentice” handbook for a quick reference.

An Informational EIP-5069: EIP Editor Handbook in Living status has been added to the Ethereum EIPs repository.

With a great success on the EIP editing, we are proposing an office hour for EIP authors for EIP reviewing.

Goal

The main goal of these meetings is to offer help to authors and move best proposals to Final status as a standard available for Ethereum users. This will provide opportunity to all parties

• EIP authors to share issues and challenges
• EIP editors will respond to some rare and corner cases that sometime maybe ambiguous otherwise
• Community may follow the recording as a learning resource for EIP documenting and/or EIP reviewing.

We hope the EIP Editing Office Hour will open a synchronous communication channel for EIP authors & EIP editors. It will encourage authors to stick around and seek help to push proposals to the next EIP status in EIP process.

Participants

EIP Editing Office Hour meetings will be open to all community members to join and follow the recording, later.

We invite all present & future EIP authors to join the call. Especially, authors of EIPs going into Last Call and Final statuses are highly encouraged to mark the calendar to join the meeting and share questions, comments, concerns with present EIP editors.

These meetings could be perceived as an extension to EIPIP meeting where the main focus is discussing particular EIPs instead of process around EIPs.

Agenda

Agenda for the meeting will be added to the ECH GitHub Issues in advance. EIP authors must add their proposal for discussion in comments to be included in the agenda for the next meeting.

In general, the agenda for the meeting will include

• any proposal looking for EIP editors’ attention
• EIPs promoted to Last Call in the past two weeks
• Open Pull Requests to move a proposal to the Final status in the past two weeks.

Meeting Schedule

EIP Editing Office Hour meeting will be organized by the Ethereum Cat Herders in association with Sam Wilson and active EIP editors.

These meetings will be using the same time slot of alternate Tuesday at 15:00 UTC starting September 6th, 2022 ; replacing the EIP Editors’ Apprenticeship meetings.

Announcement of the meetings can be found on ECH Discord.

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