RocketMQ Improvement Proposal

In the last few years, we use the Jira(migrated to Issues) to trace issues or collect the new idea from the community. It’s a nice way for a feature request but not very formal and easy to trace and manage. So We introduce the RIP - RocketMQ Improvement Proposal mechanism to replace the current Feature Request Process.

RIPs should be used for significant user-facing or cross-cutting changes, not small incremental improvements. When in doubt, if a committer thinks a change needs a RIP, it does.

It is easy to start a RIP from sending proposals to dev mail lists. And the whole procedure of a RIP may follow the process:

1. Create a proposal as the template. Take the next available RIP number and give your proposal a descriptive heading.

2. Start a [DISCUSS] thread on the Apache RocketMQ dev mailing list. Please ensure that the subject of the thread is of the format [DISCUSS] RIP-{your RIP number} {your RIP heading} The discussion should happen on the mailing list not on the wiki since the wiki comment system doesn't work well for larger discussions. In the process of the discussion, you may update the proposal. You should let people know the changes you are making. When you feel you have a finalized proposal.

3. Once the proposal is finalized and some committers(Shepherd) are willing to support, please call a [VOTE] to have the proposal adopted. These proposals are more serious than code changes and more serious even than release votes. The criteria for acceptance is the lazy majority. The vote should remain open for 72 hours.

4. Please update the RIP wiki page, and the index below, to reflect the current stage[accept, reject, active, inactive, waiting for owners] of the RIP after a vote. This acts as the permanent record indicating the result of the RIP (e.g., Accepted or Rejected). Also, report the result of the RIP vote to the voting thread on the mailing list so the conclusion is clear.

RIP List

RIP Number	Description	Accepted	Activity	Release
RIP-1	RocketMQ MQTT Bridge	yes	inactive	no
RIP-2	RocketMQ Spring	yes	active	yes
RIP-3	RocketMQ Python Client	yes	active	yes
RIP-4	RocketMQ Go Client	yes	active	yes
RIP-5	RocketMQ ACL	yes	active	yes
RIP-6	RocketMQ Message Tracing	yes	active	yes
RIP-7	Multiple Directories Storage Support	yes	active	yes
RIP-8	Consumer RACK Support	yes	waiting for owners	no
RIP-9	RocketMQ Develop Guide	yes	active	yes
RIP-10	RocketMQ Unit Test	yes	waiting for owners	yes
RIP-11	Evolution of The Next Decade Architecture for RocketMQ	yes	active	no
RIP-12	RocketMQ Replicator	yes	active	yes
RIP-13	RocketMQ Console Project	yes	active	yes
RIP-14	RocketMQ Community Operation Conventions	yes	active	yes
RIP-15	RocketMQ IPv6 Support Project	yes	active	yes
RIP-16	RocketMQ RPC(Request-Response model) Support	yes	active	yes
RIP-17	RocketMQ HTTP Proxy Support	yes	waiting for owners	no
RIP-18	Metadata Management Architecture Upgrade	yes	active	no
RIP-19	Server-side Rebalance, Lightweight Consumer Client	yes	active	yes
RIP-20	Streaming Tiered Storage Optimize	yes	active	no
RIP-21	Logical Queue Abstraction for Static Topic and Fast Scale-out	yes	active	yes
RIP-26	Improve Batch Message Processing Throughput	yes	active	yes
RIP-27	Auto Batching in Producer	yes	active	no
RIP-28	Light Message Queue (LMQ)	yes	active	yes
RIP-29	Optimize RocketMQ NameServer	yes	active	no
RIP-30	Support Compaction Topic	yes	active	yes
RIP-31	Support RocketMQ BrokerContainer	yes	active	no
RIP-32	Slave Acting Master Mode	yes	active	yes
RIP-33	RocketMQ MQTT	yes	active	yes
RIP-34	Support Quorum Write and Adaptive Degradation in Master Slave Architecture	yes	active	no
RIP-35	Use Rocketmq Instead of MySQL as State Store	yes	active	no
RIP-37	New and Unified APIs	yes	active	yes
RIP-38	RocketMQ EventBridge	yes	active	yes
RIP-39	Support gRPC Protocol	yes	active	yes
RIP-40	RocketMQ Play Book	yes	active	no
RIP-41	RocketMQ E2E Test	yes	active	no
RIP-42	Support Schema Registry	yes	active	no
RIP-43	Support Timing Messages with Arbitrary Time Delay	yes	active	yes
RIP-44	Support DLedger Controller	yes	active	yes
RIP-45	RocketMQ Replicator 2.0	yes	active	no
RIP-46	Observability Improvement for RocketMQ	yes	active	yes
RIP-47	Data Layout V2	Discussing	active	no
RIP-48	Enhance Server-side Offset Management Ability	yes	active	yes
RIP-49	RocketMQ Remoting Module Improvement	yes	active	yes
RIP-50	RocketMQ Transaction Message Improvement	yes	active	yes
RIP-51	Pop Orderly Improvement	yes	active	yes
RIP-52	Optimize Building ConsumeQueue	yes	active	yes
RIP-54	Backporting of Remoting-based Client	yes	active	no
RIP-55	Support Remoting Protocol in RocketMQ Proxy Module	yes	active	yes
RIP-56	Replace Logging Module with Shaded Loback	yes	active	yes
RIP-57	Tiered storage for RocketMQ	yes	active	yes
RIP-58	RocketMQ Streams improvement	yes	active	no
RIP-59	Support DLedger Controller Snapshot	yes	active	no
RIP-61	RocketMQ EventBridge Runtime	yes	active	no
RIP-62	Cold read control	yes	active	yes
RIP-63	Queue selection strategy optimization	Yes	active	yes
RIP-64	Heartbeat Optimization	Yes	active	yes
RIP-65	Tiered Storage Optimization	Yes	active	no
RIP-66	Support KV(Rocksdb) Storage	Yes	active	no
RIP-67	jRaft-Controller Implemention	Yes	active	no
RIP-68	RocketMQ ACL 2.0	Discussing	active	no