Re: [gamepad] Seeking status and plans

On 10/10/13 2:12 PM, ext Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> Thanks for the nudge! My work on the spec (and the Firefox
> implementation) fell by the wayside for many months, but I found some
> time to work on my implementation recently. We (Mozilla) are shipping a
> very-close-to-spec implementation in Nightly builds, and it's available
> behind a preference in our current release (Firefox 24).
>
> I'd actually like to ship our implementation in release soon, I just
> have a few minor implementation bugs (with significant impact) to fix as
> well as one possible breaking spec change[1]. With those in order I'd be
> pretty happy to ship. We'd be shipping unprefixed, as is our new policy.
>
> It's my understanding that Google has been shipping a prefixed
> implementation that's also pretty close to the spec for some time now,
> but that Scott suffers from the same "Gamepad is not really my full-time
> job" problem that I do. He'd be more equipped to talk about this than I
> am, certainly.
>
> In terms of feature-completeness I think the spec is basically done.
> Aside from that one breaking change I'd like to make I don't think
> there's anything else we want to address right now that couldn't be done
> in a future release of the spec. We've wanted to keep the scope small
> from the beginning and I think we did okay. It definitely needs some
> more work (mostly polishing of the text, fixing the existing bugs), but
> we could certainly get out a new WD with the most recent text.

Thanks for this update Ted. Scott - please let us know if you have any 
additional status to share.

Since 21388 is now Resolved/Fixed, based on what you say above it seems 
like the next step should be to have a 1-week "pre-LC call for 
comments". Then, assuming no major issues are raised, I would start a 
CfC to publish a LCWD.

However, I noticed 4 open bugs [Bugs]. What is the plan for these (f.ex. 
are they deferred to the next version)?

One reason groups publish a LCWD is to use it as a signal that broader 
review of the spec is desired, and in this case, perhaps we can ask 
Marcos to help us reach out to the developer community he mentioned in 
[Dev].

-Thanks, ArtB

[Dev] 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013OctDec/0181.html>

>
> -Ted
>
> 1. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21388
>

Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:56:41 UTC