Regarding the two cases of FEP’s which have gone through this process and are marked as “final”, the question I have is “What would have needed to have happened for them not to have become FINAL”?
In the case of FEP-8fcf (Followers collection synchronization), there was a lot of discussion up until May 21, 2021. Then there was a 8 months gap and on Jan 24, 2022, the proposer asked for it to be finalized. 14 days later it was declared FINAL, with no intervening comments. From the discussion, there was no consensus at all. If consensus had emerged, it must have been out-of-band, because it certainly wasn’t reflected in the discussion in this forum.
In the case of FEP-400e (Publicly appendable collections), the proposer asked for it to be finalized on Jan 21, 2022. This was in the middle of debate of a particular point, which continued for a few more days, with no resolution. This followed previous discussions on many other points, many/most of which did not arrive at a consensus resolution. On Feb 5, 14 days after the request, the FEP was finalized. As in the other case, there was no consensus, at least none apparent from the discussion in this forum.
In both cases, the requests for “finalization” seemed to come out of the blue with no apparent consensus having emerged, and in both cases, someone decided to just declare the FEPs final.
So, I am wondering in both those cases, what would we have needed to be seeing in this forum if those FEP’s were not going to be finalized?