Github staging and works in progress

As was raised during PR #102 on github, Jan's preference so far has been 
to have PRs that are complete and ready.

I posit that allowing discussion and updates on specific implementation 
is a great feature of github and we should have a convention to allow 
for this, such that a solution can evolve with input inside a PR.

@jck's suggestion of doing what neovim do seems like a great idea to me:

Prefixing the title with one of the following tags:

|[WIP] - Work In Progress: the PR will change, so while there is no immediate need for review, the submitter still might appreciate it.
[RFC] - Request For Comment: the PR needs reviewing and/or comments.
[RDY] - Ready: the PR has been reviewed by at least one other person and has no outstanding issues.
|

Only when the tag is changed to [RDY] is it deemed to be ready for 
inclusion.

It would be great if github had a collaborative staging area, but this 
seems like a good solution to me.

On a similar vein, I've sometimes failed to get useful feedback on 
specific implementations that are distinctly a work in progress, but 
need feedback to proceed. Specifically, issue #68 in which I have half 
of a complete implementation for that particular problem. It's 
distinctly not PR ready, but is a WIP. I'm somewhat disinclined to sink 
any more time into it without some further constructive feedback, which 
I attempted to garner without much success.

I feel there is quite a bit that could be done very easily to make 
contributors feel more welcome. A mechanism for better and more patient 
code collaboration for WIPs would go a long way to this end. Perhaps if 
Jan doesn't wish to be involved with this, a second mirror repository on 
github could take on that role.

Cheers,

Henry

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