WIP: RFC: Praefect Dataloss Prevention and Recovery Strategy

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Pre-Review

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Ready for review

• Require a minimum of 2 maintainer approvals. Increase if warranted.
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  • Announce a time window for accepting comments (at least a week).

Post-Approval

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• Wait until the declared time window expires before taking action to give others a chance to comment.
• Once the time window expires, decide to either merge the RFC as is, or address new feedback.
• If you choose to make changes, ping the existing approvers so that they may review the changes.
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Reviewer instructions

1. Familiarize yourself with the RFC Guidelines
2. Identify other reviewers who can offer constructive feedback. Offer them the opportunity to review.
3. For your review, follow the Gitaly reviewing guide.
4. Approve, but do not merge. Let the contributor merge when ready.