Clarifications on communication policies with the QA WG

Hi,

There are many ways and channels to communicate with the QA Working
Group, and I think a reminder and clarification about that could be
helpful.

As you know, the QA Interest Group (IG) mailing list (www-qa) is the
preferred mean of communication from and to the QA Working Group (WG). 

Regularly, the WG announces there the publication of its technical
reports, on which it explicitly asks for commenters to use www-qa@w3.org
as the place to raise issues and send generic comments.

Similarly, issues on which the Working Group seeks feedback from a wide
community are discussed in this same forum. And to allow the Interest
Group to better follow the work done by the WG, all the minutes of the
WG teleconferences are announced on this same list.

If you comment on published technical reports on this list, or raise
issues there, the WG will ensure that your comments receive appropriate
response/attention.  (New procedures will hopefully ensure that we miss
no comments that warrant response.)

Recently, the QA Activity has started to use a Wiki
(http://esw.w3.org/topic/QA), with the goal of building a community view
on some QA-related topics. This is a place to share your experiences,
knowledge and comments. We will use the Wiki to vet ideas, as a forum
for brainstorming,  etc.

This Wiki doesn't change the official means of communicating with the
WG, since it is independent from the WG, in the sense where the output
of this Wiki is not endorsed nor maintained by the WG ; you can
contribute ideas into any of these public Wiki  topics, but you're not
guaranteed any official WG reply or action about them. 

If you want acknowledgement, action, or response to comments you must
use  www-qa@w3.org

Dom

PS: for future references, this message is linked from http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/#comm
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Dominique Hazaël-Massieux - http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
W3C/ERCIM
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