Substantial Serum changes, including feature development and new products are put through an RFC (request for comments) process.
Similar to other processes, Serum RFCs hopes to provide a shared forum to foster discussion and debate among all Serum stake holders so that the community can be confident about the direction the ecosystem is evolving in.
Use the RFC template and open a pull request. Once reviewed and approved by the maintainers, it will be added to Serum Academy and development should begin. All the sections in the template are optional, so use your judgement. But please follow the formatting and file naming conventions used by existing RFCs.
Typos, minor fixes, and major changes discovered after implementing an RFC should be merged through the pull request workflow.
Commenting on current RFCs is open to everyone. To comment on a merged RFC, open an issue citing the RFC number.
If you're thinking about writing an RFC, go for it!
The hope is for anyone who's interested in Serum, including but not limited to the DEX, will use this as a community hub. Want to build an AMM using the Serum pool primitive? Write an RFC. Want to add a new UI component to the Serum DEX UI? Write an RFC. Have an idea but can't develop it yourself? Write an RFC. If it's worth doing, the community will help you find a team to implement it.
Of course if you're making something that's not affecting existing projects, you don't need to follow this process. However, if you care about community feedback and buy in, it's recommended.
For small, repo specific issues like bug reports, please file issues directly in the associated repo.
If you have any questions about the process at all, feel free to ask in the Serum community Discord linked above.