- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:02:11 +0100
- To: Public DWBP WG <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Dear all, especially BP editors and WG chairs. I apologise again for being absent for the last two weeks' calls. The latter was particularly frustrating as I was stuck in transit for 24 hours longer than anticipated. It's obviously *really* good news that we have resolved to go to CR for the BP doc and that the vocabs are very close to completion. Terrific. Taking on board action-287 I have been preparing the documentation to seek transition to CR which, as you know, needs the Director's approval. Chapter and verse is at [1]. There are many different bits of evidence that need to be gathered and I've done this in a Web page at [2]. First of all I look for a nice bold, red resolution to publish. There isn't one. Nowhere. The minutes of 24 June say there will be an e-mail vote, but it would have been good to see a resolution to that effect. So I look through all the e-mails and find 13 WG members have voted +1. The minutes of 1 July say there were 18 votes. Herbert Van de Sompel accounts for one more, but where do you get the figure of 18 from?? The available evidence of the resolution is barely enough. It would make life easier for everyone if we just retook the resolution tomorrow, or recorded some sort of resolution that makes it easy to refer to the votes that have been taken. Something like, noting the 13 WG member votes recorded in the e-mail archive, the WG resolves to publish the snapshot at http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/publishing-snapshots/CR-dwbp-20160706/ as a Candidate Recommendation. I'll scribe. Grrrr. Moan. Gnashing of teeth. Switching to a more positive outlook - the disposition of comments and the form the Newton has created is excellent, thank you. Let's hope we get the responses we need. And the other evidence wasn't hard to put together. How confident are we that we'll get 2 independent implementations for all 35 BPs? Are we sure we don't need to mark any as being at risk? Until tomorrow, Phil. [1] https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#candidate-rec [2] https://www.w3.org/2016/07/dwbp-cr -- Phil Archer W3C Data Activity Lead http://www.w3.org/2013/data/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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