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If you want to call yourself open, you can start by making the development more open. Right now it’s almost all behind closed doors until it hits a PR, and once in a while the Vercel gods are feeling generous enough to share some slightly early plans in a discussion somewhere.

Simply “here’s what we have in mind for next release”. An open framework should not be developed like you folks do it. Look at how Python or Django develop their releases for better examples.

You have RFCs, but most of them are internal and don’t reach the public space. Why?

AppDir is a good example. Yeah you have an extremely high level table of what’s planned vs in progress but there’s nowhere public where these discussions are being held. We’re not able to see nor contribute to the decisions. We’re not able to chime in when bad decisions are obviously being taken. Some companies view this as an asset because they want the power to silently take decisions that are good for them but bad for their users.