On Thursday, January 16, 2003, 1:40:42 PM, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote: > Being a participant in a WG, I can assure you that the fact that WG have > to publish a draft every 3 months (as required by W3C Process Document) Where is that requirement? "At least every three months, each Working Group must provide the public with an update of their progress. A progress report may take a variety of forms, including the publication of a technical report" - http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/groups.html#three-month-rule An update could simply be updating a WG homepage as far as I can see. Something else I'd like to see are more timelines like the CSS WG have with CSS3 at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work#table. Not exact release dates or anything, it's just nice to have some idea when the next draft might be coming along. > I'm sure that most WG do their best to reply to any issue raised in > the right forum, to document their issues resolution and to > highlight their open issues in their draft Indeed, and they do do an excellent job. The problem is that the mailing lists can take a bit of finding, and often aren't very friendly to people new to the W3C (see "Three design-related (HTML or CSS) elements for your consideration" on www-html for a recent classic example of that). > but requiring them to have more formal communications on all the > front is unlikely to happen due to resources constraint. Replace an internal WG meeting with a public one every so often? I don't know how practical that would be. Even WGs publishing a simple report of progress they have done ever year would be nice. -- Tom Gilder http://tom.me.uk/Received on Thursday, 16 January 2003 09:48:27 GMT
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