Re: Are We Done Yet? [Was: Re: Minutes - Coremob 2012 is "final"]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:55:51 +0100, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>  
wrote:

> On 1/31/13 9:48 AM, ext SULLIVAN, BRYAN L wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arthur Barstow [mailto:art.barstow@nokia.com]
>>
>> I thought that was the raison d'être of webplatform.org. Surely we don't
>> want a duplicated effort.
>>
>> Bryan: that can be considered, e.g. re fitness for purpose, but AFAIK  
>> has not been discussed yet in CoreMob. But wouldn't moving stakeholder  
>> discussion to there also compete with the CG concept, and devalue it?
>
> No, I think focusing developers to webplatform.org is the most efficient  
> use of resources.

Right. Which IMHO is more important than keeping this particular CG alive  
- the goal is to improve the Web, not to maintain some particular group or  
other just because it used to be useful.

I'm not so sure that there is no more point in Coremob. We need  
documentation and we need tests and we need specs, but we don't need to do  
any of those things ourselves. The value I see is in generating and  
justifying use cases by looking at what real developers are trying to do  
without dividing the efforts across different working groups. The use  
cases can thus be used effectively as input to all three of the activities  
we don't do here...

>> There are also key rules/procedure differences between the CG's and  
>> webplatform.org.
>
> Well, I consider that a bug that needs to be fixed

I'm not sure that it is a bug, and I am not sure if it needs to be fixed.  
But it might be worth looking at if it implies there is a real problem in  
getting resources more efficiently allocated.

> and if there really are mobile-specific aspects of a spec/API, that
> be called-out in the appropriate documentation at webplatform.org.

Sure.

Cheers

Chaals

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