CfC: Adopt new W3C process for Media Capture documents

Hi,

the W3C adopted a new process during the summer [1], it came into effect
on August 5. It is optional for groups to adopt until August 2016.

There is an extensive FAQ on the transition to the new process available
[2].

The main change is that it removes Last Call: groups are expected to
get wide reviews before going into Candidate Recommendation, and CR is
the "final" review signal; in particular, contrarily to the current
process, if you make substantive changes during CR, you don't have to go
back to Last Call, you "just" republish an updated CR (while still
making sure the relevant parties review the said changes)

There is some early guidance on how you get "wide reviews" without a
Last Call signal in [3]. Essentially, the group asks the relevant
parties for reviews when the relevant section stabilizes.

Given the maturity of our documents we can choose to use either the old 
or the new process for any of our docs (at least until Aug 2016).

The decision to use one or the other process is a decision for the group
to make.

We think the new process is an improvement; its main drawback is
that W3C as a community has less experience with it (obviously).

We propose that we switch to the new process for all documents except
"Media Capture and Streams" now. Given that we're pushing to get "Media
Capture and Streams" to Last Call soon, we think we should stay with the 
old process for that document until it is in Last Call, and then change 
to the new process.

Do you agree? Please respond by EOB Friday December 12 (silence will be 
interpreted as "yes").

Harald and Stefan

[1] http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/
[2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/ProcessTransition2014
[3] https://www.w3.org/wiki/DocumentReview

Received on Friday, 5 December 2014 13:04:33 UTC