There are three primary stages of an agreement in Murmur:
- Drafts: Drafts are agreements in their most nascent form. This is where experiments go from brainstorms to fleshed-out ideas. Once the proposer is ready, a draft becomes a proposal.
- Proposals: Proposals are agreements taking flight through the Murmur Method. They're not yet active in your workspace — participants are still asking questions, making suggestions, and deciding whether the proposal is safe-to-try — but they're well on their way.
- Agreements: Agreements are the proposals that have secured consent from all participants and are active in your workspace. They're the living, breathing embodiment of how work gets done within the team. While agreements are active, Murmur collects feedback from the team on what's working and what's not. But if updates just can't wait, you can also propose changes to an active agreement before it expires.
Agreements can also be archived if they get to the point where the team no longer feels the need (or desire) to uphold them. They'll be available for future use if you ever want to unarchive them, but nothing else will happen with them (no feedback, edits, expiration). They will literally just sit there, waiting for their moment to be revived.
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