- From: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:56:10 +0000
- To: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
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, and the date of our first charter, we can choose to use either the old or the new process for any of our docs (at least until Aug 2016); the fact that we may be rechartering later this year doesn't affect this. 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. What do you all think, is this reasonable? 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
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