[RFC] operational notes: tracking yearly goals

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+# Tracking progress of yearly goals
+
+At the beginning of the year the WG decides on the goals that it plans to
+achieve by the end of the year. This document describes how the progress of
+those goals is tracked in the rust-embedded/* issue trackers.
+
+- One tracking issue per goal. All these issues will be under the `$YEAR`
+  milestone.
+
+- All tracking issues have at least one team associated to it (\*). This will be
+  reflected using a label, e.g. `T-cortex-m`. (\*) With the exception of the
+  meta issue used to track upstream (rust-lang/*) bug fixes, stabilization
+  issues, etc.
+
+- All issues will have at least one WG member assigned to it (using GH
+  "assignees" feature).
+
+- No member shall be assigned to more than three tracking issues at any point in
+  time.
+
+- The assignee(s) will report updates on the tracking issues as comments. In
+  particular, they'll post a summary report each week, before the weekly
+  meeting. No summary report is needed for "not started" issues.
+
+- The summary reports will start with a status label indicating whether the goal
+  is "on track", "blocked" or in the "help wanted" state. The summary will
+  include the updates since the last summary report and the next steps for the
+  issue (e.g. write an RFC, or wait for FCP to end). Example:
+
+``` markdown
+Status: on track
+
+Updates: An RFC was submitted.
+
+Next steps: wait for T-libs approval.
+```
+
+- If the status of the issue hasn't changed since last week the assignee can
+  skip the summary report of that week but they must write a summary report the
+  next week.
+
+- Summary reports will be linked from the issue description (i.e. from the top
+  of the thread) in reverse chronological order using the following format:
+  `W$N: $STATUS`, where `$N` is the week number and `$STATUS` is the status
+  label. Example:
+
+``` markdown
+Title: ARM intrinsics
+
+### Status reports
+
+- [W13: blocked](..)
+- [W11: on track](..)
+- W6-W10: not started
+
+---
+
+### Description
+
+This tracking issue is about stabilizing ARM Cortex-M / Cortex-R / Cortex-A
+intrinsics (e.g. `wfi`) in the `core::arch::arm` module.
+```
+
+- If an issue has been in "blocked" or "help wanted" state for more than two
+  weeks then it will automatically be scheduled for discussion during the next
+  weekly meeting. At least one member of the team assigned to the issue must
+  attend that meeting.