Re: Response data should always be in a top-level "value" property.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:03 PM, James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 04/10/16 11:16, Simon Stewart wrote:
>
>> Alright. Since we seem to be in broad consensus, I've put up a PR for
>> this: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver/pull/345
>>
>
> So far we have one positive and one negative response. That doesn't seem
> like "broad consensus" unless there is some out of band discussion that I'm
> unaware of.
>

I'm confused. Who's the negative response from? You've said, and say so
again in this email, that if this is something worth changing you won't
object. That's more of an abstention :)


> As I said, if this is really something that people think is worth changing
> I won't object. But at this stage I really think reversing an explicit
> years-old consensus decision about a fundamental part of the protocol
> design should require actual "broad consensus" which means getting explicit
> approval on the list from most implementors. If there is no bar to
> revisiting old decisions we will never get done.
>

We've also said that if we find problems when implementing the spec, we
should resolve those issues in the spec. As someone implementing a local
end, and more than one intermediary node, I've identified a problem, and we
should fix that.

Simon