Re: [INFRASTRUCTURE] New feature: Weekly updates on Verifiable Credentials progress

Thanks Manu,
This is fantastic work and is much appreciated! Definitely I think a weekly
is good as a starting point, and we can shift to monthly if for some reason
that gets to an info overload scenario.

Mike Prorock
CTO, Founder
https://mesur.io/



On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:49 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> As some of you might have noticed[1], we have new infrastructure that will
> hopefully help this community stay up to date on what's going on with the
> Verifiable Credentials work (and any other work we want a weekly digest
> for).
>
> The VCWG has a requirement to let this community (the Credentials Community
> Group) know when we're going to update the Verifiable Credentials Data
> Model
> specification (editorial or substantive changes). This has, to date, been a
> manual process that the Editors have found difficult to stay on top of.
>
> We now have an automated process that will summarize all activity over the
> past week in an easy to read HTML digest. Our hope is that this helps
> everyone
> be more informed about the changes related to Verifiable Credentials.
>
> An easy to read HTML example of this new digest should be before this
> email in
> your inbox. The link to the digest is here:
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Nov/0106.html
>
> If any other group associated with CCG would like this sort of digest
> generated for their work, please let me know and I can set it up for you.
>
> I suggest that we keep these sorts of notifications very light, or we might
> run the risk of overwhelming the group with "weekly update" emails. My
> suggestion at this point would be to put the DID WG work in as a weekly
> update... and then all other active work items for CCG in another one
> (total
> of 3 separate weekly update emails). We can even do monthly ones if the
> frequency is too much for folks.
>
> We're trying to make it easier for people to track what's going on in
> the work streams w/o having to subscribe to all of the Github repositories
> (and thus receive the flood of emails that produces).
>
> Please let us know if this new feature is useful, annoying, and/or needs
> fine
> tuning.
>
> -- manu
>
> [1]
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Nov/0106.html
>
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