Call for proposals

Each goal milestone corresponds to six months, designated in the format YYYYhN, e.g., 2024h2 or 2025h1. To launch a new goal season, you should get started a couple of months before the new season starts:

• For an H1 season, start around mid October of the year before.
• For an H2 season, start around mid April of the year before.

This is the checklist of steps to starting accepting goal proposals:

• Prepare a Call For Proposals blog post on the Inside Rust blog based on this sample.
  • We use Inside Rust and not the Main blog because the target audience is would-be Rust contributors and maintainers.
• Update the main README page to indicate that the next round of goals is begin accepted.
  • Sample text to include.
• Create a new directory src/YYYYhN, e.g., src/2025h1, with the following files. Note that the sample files below include <!-- XXX --> directives that are detected by the mdbook plugin and replaced with appropriate content automatically.
  • A src/YYYYhN/README.md file that contains the draft RFC.
    • You can start with this sample file.
  • A src/YYYYhN/goals.md file containing the draft goal listing.
    • You can start with this sample file.
  • A src/YYYYhN/not_accepted.md file containing the list of goals that were not accepted.
    • You can start with this sample file.
• Modify SUMMARY.md to include your new milestone with some text like what is shown below.

Sample SUMMARY.md comments from 2025H1:

# ⏳ 2025H1 goal process

- [Overview](./2025h1/README.md)
- [Proposed goals](./2025h1/goals.md)
- [Goals not accepted](./2025h1/not_accepted.md)

Receiving PRs

to be written