Re: Shelving documents

Hi there,

As I said during the F2F meeting I think the text to be put there should
make it CLEAR that:

A/ The API has been discontinued because the current DAP WG prefers to
work on an 'intent-based' approach in order to meet browser use-cases.

B/ The API it is still useful in a trusted environment context.

C/ That the referred work may be taken over by a new W3C group or by other
communities more interested on trusted execution environments.

All the best

El 08/11/11 17:21, "Robin Berjon" <robin@berjon.com> escribió:

>Dear all,
>
>over the course of this group's existence, we have explored many avenues.
>Some of those have not seen any recent work on them, and can therefore be
>very misleading to people outside the group trying to assess what we are
>doing. In some cases, this results in people starting implementations of
>approaches we've abandoned. I am seeing books shipping or about to ship
>with mention of device APIs and mentioning things that we currently don't
>plan on turning into reality. It also means that people sometimes form a
>bad opinion of DAP (or, as often as not, of W3C) because ideas we don't
>believe work are still out there as if they reflected the best of our
>thinking.
>
>As a result, I think that we need to be better citizens when it comes to
>marking our drafts as "shelved". I have picked this word carefully. It
>does not mean that we have abandoned the corresponding deliverable. It
>also doesn't mean that we've abandoned the use cases in a given draft,
>simply that we are working on an approach that we believe works better.
>We can, at any time, take a shelved document and return it to active work
>simply by editing and republishing it.
>
>We therefore need some form of process to shelve documents. The idea, as
>discussed at the meeting last week, is that both the TR and the ED
>versions will get big warning text as part of the SotD indicating that it
>is currently shelved. Such decisions will be made through one-week CfCs,
>as for publications (which they are).
>
>Proposed text:
>
>"""
>WARNING: The Device APIs WG does not believe that the approach outlined
>in this document best addresses the problems it set out to work on. We
>are looking into alternative options which we hope will produce better
>solutions. In the meantime, please treat this document with caution as it
>no longer captures the reality of the group's consensus.
>"""
>
>I will be following this email with a list of CfCs for several of our
>documents. If there are more documents that you think should be shelved,
>please simply bring it up. If you have issues with this process or with
>the text above, please express them by replying to this message and not
>to the ones concerning specific documents proposed for shelving ‹ it
>should be obvious that we will not shelve anything before we have
>consensus on the process side!
>
>--
>Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
>
>


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Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2011 11:03:06 UTC