Re: Announce CfC for moving mediacapture-main to CR

Dom said "go ahead" to send the CfC a couple of hours ago, so I've done 
that now.

Let's hope we were not too quick!

Stefan

On 07/04/16 14:43, Daniel Burnett wrote:
> Right, the implementations don't have to be ready to pass yet.
> Traditionally the test suite was a part of the call for CR, but Dom is
> definitely the right one to let us know if guidance there has changed.
>
> -- dan
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no
> <mailto:harald@alvestrand.no>> wrote:
>
>     The test suite is definitely not ready - Alex Gouillard has made
>     substantial contributions, but it has been languishing for quite a
>     while.
>
>     I would like Dom's input on process here. If we really need to wait
>     until we have a comprehensive test suite before asking for CR, I
>     think we urgently need to make the WG aware of this.
>
>     (I am positively sure that none of the implementations would pass a
>     comprehensive test suite, and won't do so this quarter either, but
>     that's a completely different matter.)
>
>
>     On 04/06/2016 12:35 PM, Daniel Burnett wrote:
>>     Two thoughts:
>>     1. Typically you only move to CR when you are pretty sure there
>>     will be no more substantive changes.  I am almost convinced that's
>>     the case :)
>>     2. CR is also a call for implementations, usually based on a test
>>     suite.  Is the test suite completely ready?  I haven't been
>>     directly following that but plan to soon; however, I got the
>>     impression we are not yet ready.
>>     In particular, the tests I find [1] look good but appear to be far
>>     fewer in number than I would guess we have normative statements
>>     for in the spec.  The issue here is that a CR period normally has
>>     a defined end by when the Implementation Reports need to be in,
>>     something difficult to do if the test suite is not yet complete.
>>
>>     I do absolutely think it is time to work on the wording for the
>>     Call for Implementations, meaning that we work out just exactly
>>     what we expect to receive from implementers in the form of an
>>     Implementation Report.  If this happened and I missed it, please
>>     feel free to point me in the right direction.
>>
>>     -- dan
>>
>>     [1]
>>     https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/mediacapture-streams
>>
>>     On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK
>>     <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com
>>     <mailto:stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>
>>         Dan is in the process of making a new Editor's draft which
>>         incorporates
>>         the PRs #319 and #330.
>>
>>         The chairs would like to announce a CfC to the TF (which will
>>         then I
>>         suppose have to be cascaded to the parent WebRTC and DAP WGs)
>>         to request
>>         a transition to Candidate Recommendation.
>>
>>         We know there are still some open Issues, but we think they
>>         are all
>>         solvable (something we would also say in the CfC mail).
>>
>>         Does any of the editors see a problem with moving forward in
>>         this way?
>>
>>         Stefan for the chairs
>>
>>
>
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