No barrier (was Re: Public review schedule for the draft data usage vocabulary?)

Eric, everyone,

Let me clarify the situation if I can.

There is no formal requirement that a WG freezes a document and then has 
a week to review before it is published. A document could be edited 
during a call and the WG could vote there and then to publish.

The requirement is simply that there is consensus within the group that 
a document should be formally published.

To achieve that, the WG should be aware that a publication is imminent 
and the chairs should signal when a vote to publish is likely to take 
place. As you know, agendas are always published at least 24 hours ahead 
of a WG meeting and, if a resolution is expected on publication, that 
will be in the agenda.

The current situation in the WG is that editors have been making 
enormous efforts to get documents ready for publication. Everyone in the 
WG is aware of this (and grateful to those editors!).

Therefore, if the chairs so decide, there is nothing to prevent a 
proposal to publish any or all of the three documents being put on the 
coming week's agenda.

I fully understand your concern, Eric, and yes, I have pushed the week 
to review idea throughout the WG's existence, but I hope this gives the 
broader perspective. Yes, W3C is a stickler for process - we know - but 
we're well within it here.

I can't be on this Friday's call but will have reviewed all three docs 
by then and will raise any concerns by mail. The following week, i.e. 
the first week of June, I am travel-free and, speaking personally, it 
would be an ideal week for me to support the editors in getting 
documents ready for publication on Thursday 4th June.

Phil.




On 22/05/2015 21:29, Eric Stephan wrote:
> I know our meetings are jam packed each week and not everything can be
> discussed,  but I am concerned that because we did not have a chance to
> formally ask the working group during the meeting time to review our
> vocabulary that our schedule will slip.
>
> In other words, does it take a formal proposal to the working group to
> start the review clock (I believe Phil mentioned it was a two week window)?
>
> If it does take a proposal, can we expedite the process by having a
>   proposal and vote in email to avoid slipping by another week?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Eric S
>

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