Re: Outstanding PRs and changes post level 1

Hi,

TBH, I thought we'd have reached REC right now so this would be a moot
point. Given that we're not, I'm fine with creating a branch for the PR
work. It'd be nice to move the spec forward again :)

If Mike gives us the go-ahead, we can get going ASAP.

Simon


On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Andreas Tolfsen <ato@sny.no> wrote:

> At the time of writing there are 22 outstanding PRs for the
> specification.  It is important to us as a vendor that the living
> standard reflects the reality of the implementations, and some of
> the PRs contains useful clarifications we would like to see in the
> specification.
>
> I understand the editors are working on preparing a snapshot of the
> document for CR/REC, meaning it will be frozen with limited ability
> to make changes, but because Mozilla—and I imagine most other
> vendors—follow the living document (last changed 23 October) [2]
> rather than the TR (dated 30 March) [3], it doesn’t make sense to
> put a halt to further changes aimed at post level 1.
>
> I would suggest branching off level 1 to a separate branch so we can
> continue iterating on the master branch.  If there are particularly
> important bug fixes that needs to make level 1 they can be cherry
> picked or backported.
>
>  [1] https://github.com/w3c/webdriver/pulls
>  [2] https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html
>  [3] https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/
>
>