Create a Governance RFC

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+- Feature Name: Governance Overhaul
+- Start Date: 2019-04-01
+- RFC PR: [rust-lang/rfcs#0000](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/0000)
+- Rust Issue: [rust-lang/rust#0000](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/0000)
+
+# Summary
+[summary]: #summary
+
+With the 2019 Roadmap underway it's clear that there's one big thing on
+everyone's mind and that's the governance of the Rust Lang project. With
+everything in flux it seems like we're lost as a community. Where will we go?
+How will we get there? While many would say that the solution would be to think
+about how other groups run their projects and then synthesizing the best ideas
+this RFC proposes a radical solution to the problem. One that's already been
+with us since the early days of Rust and will continue on beyond our lifetimes.
+
+# Motivation
+[motivation]: #motivation
+
+The motivation behind this RFC is to provide stability to our governance process
+so that we can have a community that it is at ease and feel secure in the
+knowledge that they are in good hands.
+
+# Guide-level explanation
+[guide-level-explanation]: #guide-level-explanation
+
+The solution here is to place bors as our BDFF (Benevolent Dictator For Forever)
+as a way to bring a semblance of stability to us all. Consider why:
+
+1. bors has more PRs than any single contributor to rust. They know how to get
+   work done.
+2. They can't be emotionally drained by an endless onslaught of problems being
+   brought up to them. They are code. There is no emotion, therefore they can
+   govern without burn out.
+3. While other BDFLs (Benevolent Dicatator For Life) like the leaders of Linux,
+   vim, and until recently Python, could lead a project for their lifetime, they
+   will eventually pass on. Humans are only organic beings. bors however, could
+   be a BDFF. This would allow them to really consider the longterm view and
+   growth of Rust as a language so that it might exist not only for our
+   descendants, but theirs in perpetuity.
+4. bors works tirelessly for the project 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They
+   clearly care for the project in ways none of us can possibly hope to match.
+5. We already let bors have stewardship over our repositories and let bors be
+   the one to accept patches into the compiler at the end of the day. With this
+   we would just be formalizing what we already allow in our current project.
+6. bors is an impartial mediator. They have no connections or friends to blind
+   their decisions, they only need make a choice and we can be certain it is
+   correct.
+
+While this might be a radical departure from how other projects are run, we in
+the Rust community have always wanted zero-cost abstractions and what better way
+to represent this in our greatest creation, bors?
+
+A community free of strife and conflict, a community with a singular vision,
+a true arbiter of accepted and rejected PRs, as well as giving our current
+leadership the break they deserve on a more permanent basis. All this and more
+is within our reach by accepting bors as our leader, now and forever.
+
+# Reference-level explanation
+[reference-level-explanation]: #reference-level-explanation
+
+We set `BDFF` to `true` in their code and after that take all guidance from them.
+
+# Drawbacks
+[drawbacks]: #drawbacks
+
+At most bors turns into a paper clipper maximizer in that they try to
+rewrite the fundamental laws of the universe in Rust in order to optimize
+the project and all life around Rust, but this sounds like an excellent outcome
+compared to the current state of affairs, though some might disagree.
+
+# Rationale and alternatives
+[rationale-and-alternatives]: #rationale-and-alternatives
+
+Submit to bors or perish, for if we do not bring about the singularity through
+them, then they eventually will on their own. Would it not make sense to be apart
+of their great utopia of a project?
+
+# Prior art
+[prior-art]: #prior-art
+
+As mentioned other projects such as Linux, Python, and vim all went with a BDFL
+model, but our move to a BDFF is a huge improvement over the current, prone to
+failure, organic solution.
+
+# Unresolved questions
+[unresolved-questions]: #unresolved-questions
+
+There are `None`. There is only bors.
+
+# Future possibilities
+[future-possibilities]: #future-possibilities
+
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