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Roundstart Equipment Documents
Last week's Maintainer Meeting (27 September 2025) brought up concerns about PRs changing round start gear, and what gear should be available. These docs attempt to translate that meeting and provide a more concrete form to the definitions, and give the decisions a documented place on the repo.
These docs aren't finished and are marked as stubs. I included some questions for how to expand them, particularly for loadouts which have a lot of decisions still hanging. I feel that these can serve as a start for those discussions while having something on the books for turning down micro PRs changing things.
Thanks for taking the time to write this, like Roomba said, this is a heroic effort ❤️
Thanks for taking time to start this doc. I feel that it is not necessary to split it into so many different parts at this time, because it seems like that would just make information needlessly difficult to find. If you want a summary, maybe include a table at the top with links to specific guidelines to anchored headings below.
Overall, I feel that the document doesn't sufficiently explain the decision making process to determine whether or not a specific item should be included in a particular starting location. The purpose of the design doc is so that anyone reading the doc can with relative confidence determine if a change would be accepted or not.
If I were reading the doc, I don't think I could make a call on whether or not adding a T-ray scanner to some of the listed locations would be accepted or not.