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- Start Date: (fill me in with today's date, YYYY-MM-DD)
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- TTL: (e.g. "April 20th, 2021", time the review is expected to be completed by. Don't use relative days.)
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- Champion: (usually you, person who writes and updates the draft and incorporates feedback)
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- Main reviewer: (somebody familiar with the subject matter, who has committed to provide timely and detailed reviews for this RFC)
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- Owner team: (team who will own implementation, if it is accepted)
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- Stakeholders: (people or groups who will be affected by the proposed changes)
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- RFC PR: (leave this empty, it will be a link to PR of this RFC)
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- PoC PR: (optional, link to a PoC implementation of the feature)
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- Kibana Issue: (link to issue where the proposed feature is tracked)
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# Executive Summary
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Summarize this RFC so those unfamiliar with the project and code can quickly understand
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what the problem is, why it is important,
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and the proposed solution. Below are some suggested sections for the Executive
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Summary. Tweak as you desire and try to keep it succinct.
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## Problem statement
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What is the problem we are trying to solve? Supply any relevant background
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context. Why is this something we should focus on _now_.
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Focus on explaining the problem so that if this RFC is not accepted, this
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information could be used to develop alternative solutions. In other words,
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don't couple this too closely with the solution you have in mind.
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## Goals
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What are the goals of this project? How will we know if it was successful?
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## Proposal
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What are we doing to achieve the goals and solve the problem?
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# Who is affected and how
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Use this section to hone in on who will be affected and how. For example:
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- Are consumers of a specific plugin affected because of a public API change?
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- Will all Kibana Contributors be affected because of a change that may affect
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the development experience?
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# Detailed design
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This is the bulk of the RFC. Explain the design in enough detail for somebody
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familiar with Kibana to understand, and for somebody familiar with the
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implementation to implement. This should get into specifics and corner-cases,
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and include examples of how the feature is used. Any new terminology should be
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defined here.
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Include architectural diagrams if you see fit, a picture is worth a thousand
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words.
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## Terminology
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A glossary of new terms can be very helpful.
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# Risks
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Why should we *not* do this? Please consider:
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- implementation cost, both in term of code size and complexity
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- the impact on teaching people Kibana development
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- integration of this feature with other existing and planned features
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- cost of migrating existing Kibana plugins (is it a breaking change?)
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There are tradeoffs to choosing any path. Attempt to identify them here.
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# Alternatives
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What other designs have been considered? What is the impact of not doing this?
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# Adoption strategy
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If we implement this proposal, how will existing Kibana developers adopt it? Is
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this a breaking change? Can we write a codemod? Should we coordinate with
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other projects or libraries?
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# How this scales
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Does this change affect Kibana's performance in a substantial way? Have we discovered
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the upper bounds before we see performance degradations? Will any load
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tests be added to cover these scenarios?
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# How we teach this
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What names and terminology work best for these concepts and why? How is this
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idea best presented? As a continuation of existing Kibana patterns?
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Would the acceptance of this proposal mean the Kibana documentation must be
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re-organized or altered? Does it change how Kibana is taught to new developers
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at any level?
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How should this feature be taught to existing Kibana developers?
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# Unresolved questions
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Optional, but suggested for first drafts. What parts of the design are still
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TBD?
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