Taking the WG temperature before our scheduled call tomorrow

Folks,

On May 30, during our WG telcon (see minutes [1]) we discussed Garret's proposal [2] for a unified framework for performance evaluation of different approaches to progressive font enrichment (PFE). Part of the discussion was about collecting real life data for sets of Unicode codepoints to be used as input data for performance analysis, and Peter Muller suggested that the tools he developed earlier could be used to generate codepoints dataset from actual page walks [3].

On another subject of WG telcon scheduling, we started a Doodle poll [4] to collect info on individual member time preferences and availability. We still do not have responses from many of the new WG participants, and including them in this poll was the main reason for re-evaluation of the current call schedule.

For our scheduled call time tomorrow, I'd like you to voice your opinion on the following options:

  1.  Conduct the WG call tomorrow at the regularly scheduled time (16:00 UTC). If we do, the proposed agenda topics would be:
- Input data for PFE performance analysis, and
- Preliminary results of the Doodle poll (other agenda+ items welcome!)
  2.  Postpone the call until next week when we hopefully have more data and Doodle poll responses to discuss. (Considering that some of us are participants of the OpenType /VF font format discussion happening in Seattle this week, postponing the call may be a sensible option.)

Please respond to this email with your preference (option 1 or 2) and any agenda+ topics you'd like to propose.

Thank you,
Vlad


[1] https://www.w3.org/2019/05/30-webfonts-minutes.html
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kx62tpy5hGIbHh6tHMAryon9Sgye--W_IsHTeCMlmEo/edit
[3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2019May/0025.html
[4] https://doodle.com/poll/p9shqwr38k5y6dzf