freezing the user stories

I was under the impression that the work on the user stories was frozen and
that the focus now was on implementations.

This is not the case.

Yesterday there was a proposal to change one of the user stories, in fact
it was the user story that had the most consensus out of all 90 (15 +1s)

I am  against this change, not least of which because I had already
announced I was attempting to implement it, and was told the user stories
were frozen.

I propose to reject this change and there should be changes to the user
stories under the following sensible conditions:

1. If it goes to a vote, the vote should be unanimous.

Yesterday there was a -1 and a -0.5. and I think a 0 (minutes would help)

2. The proposer of a change should have or be implementing the user story
*in its entirety*

I dont believe any of the people voting for the change are implementing it
*it its entirety* only partially.  I have several GB of setup data on my
hard drive preparing to create all the steps of this story, I now am
starting to feel my time could be better spent doing other things.

3. The proposer must be prepared to follow the mailing list and related
discussions.

In this case the proposer (also a chair) has refused to follow the mailing
list, and so, we dont have a good record in our official communication flow
of arguments for and against.  Is it even allowed under W3C WG rules for a
chair not to read the ML?

Please could we freeze the user stories, going forward unless there is
unanimous consent.

Received on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 10:42:26 UTC