Re: [DRAFT] CfC: Handling of MSE Candidate Recommendation "at risk" features

Paul,

I believe the plan is to include a note linking to the CR version of
VideoPlaybackQuality and the new Media Playback Quality work. I think it
would be worth mentioning that in the CfC.

...Mark

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Given that we now seem to have Editors' consensus on removal of the
> VideoPlaybackQuality feature (see ISSUE-69:
> https://github.com/w3c/media-source/issues/69) and that Firefox does not
> plan to implement the TrackDefault object (see
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2016Aug/0013.html),
> are we ready to issue the following CfC to remove ALL the MSE at risk
> features?
>
> /paulc
>
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> The HTML Media Extensions WG is issuing a Call for Consensus to determine
> how to handle the "at risk" features published in the most recent MSE
> Candidate Recommendation [1].
>
> The CfC proposes to remove ALL of the "at risk" features identified in [1]
> and they will NOT appear in the upcoming candidate Proposed
> Recommendation.  The current material will be retained in a VNext branch of
> MSE.
>
>         The following features are at risk and may be removed:
>
>                 .The appendStream method on the sourceBuffer object and
> algorithm steps that are used only by it.
>
>                 .The VideoPlaybackQuality object and the HTMLVideoElement
> Extensions that use it.
>
>                 .The totalFrameDelay attribute on the VideoPlaybackQuality
> object.
>
>                 .The TrackDefault object and its related objects,
> attributes, methods and algorithms, including: TrackDefaultList,
> SourceBuffer.trackDefaults, Default track language, Default track label,
> and Default track kinds.
>
> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive
> responses are encouraged.  If there are no objections by Wednesday Aug 10,
> this resolution will carry and we will proceed with the removal of the
> identified at risk features.
>
> /paulc
> HTML Media Extensions WG Chair
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-media-source-20160705/
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> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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