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+Status: `Proposal` # Please do not change this.
+Implementer: # It will be changed upon merging and as it moves through the RFC stages
+---
+
+# Simplify the monorepo
+
+## The issue to be solved
+
+The tool [lerna](https://lerna.js.org/) we have been using to power the monorepo has become incredibly slow and difficult to deal with.
+We need to simplify the structure to allow us to fix things faster.
+
+## A short description of the solution
+
+I propose we remove lerna, move to [npm workspaces](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/using-npm/workspaces)
+and de-tangle the reasons the `bootstrap` process is currently so dependent on a very specific order
+at which what dependency has to be installed.
+
+## Technical details
+
+This RFC depends on [Remove pancake #1](https://github.com/designsystemau/RFCs/pull/1).
+
+Once we have done away with the build of pancake we can de-tangle the install process and since there won't
+be any more `postinstall` scripts per component we will be able to install the dependencies per component
+without having to worry about the order of what is installed when.
+
+We will still have the test sites we have now running as those do not require any changes and don't depend on anything.
+That means we can leave the testing infrastructure in place which is good.
+
+It does however also include the inclusion of the below tools:
+
+- [prettier](https://prettier.io/)
+- [manypkgs](https://github.com/Thinkmill/manypkg)
+- [preconstruct](https://preconstruct.tools/)
+- The docs website
+
+The docs website will be included into this monorepo so that docs are drawn from the readme of each component.
+That way we won't have to deal duplicating docs in two places.
+
+This depends on [Docs site improvements #4](https://github.com/designsystemau/RFCs/pull/4).
+
+The structure of the monorepo would look like this then:
+
+```sh
+.
+├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+├── CONTRIBUTING.md
+├── DEVELOPING.md
+├── LICENSE
+├── README.md
+├── SUPPORT.md
+├── auds.json
+├── docs
+│   └── ... (the docs site published at https://gold.designsystemau.org)
+├── package-lock.json
+├── package.json
+└── packages
+    └── ... (a directory per component)
+```