Re: DXWG Plenary: 2019-12-03

I think abstention is occasionally helpful, when it indicates that you 
aren't completely happy with the state of the product but don't want to 
block consensus.

On 12/2/19 11:53 PM, pedro winstley wrote:
> "abstention" was mentioned in the context of the poll on the conneg 
> pwd3 vote.
>
> I guess I was wrong to use that word, but there's scope to use the 
> reasons box to indicate abstention.
>
> I personally don't feel that abstention is useful in a group life 
> this, it makes decision making difficult. However, would colleagues 
> like to see this option in polls?
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, 06:35 Karen Coyle, <kcoyle@kcoyle.net 
> <mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
>     You are right that there isn't an abstain, but we do need to know
>     whether the group supports the publication of this note. So it
>     would be good to hear from others if they would have voted if
>     there had been an "abstain" option. We have time to do another
>     poll if that is the case.
>
>     kc
>
>     On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:21 AM Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov
>     <mailto:amgreiner@lbl.gov>> wrote:
>
>         It does merit pointing out that the poll did not offer the
>         opportunity to abstain except by declining to fill it in,
>         which most of us did.
>
>         -Annette
>
>         On 12/2/19 3:26 AM, pedro winstley wrote:
>>         Dear Colleagues
>>
>>         The plenary meeting is cancelled.  There are issues listed in
>>         the agenda that we will deal with by correspondence.
>>
>>         https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Meetings:Telecon2019.12.03
>>
>>         These are:
>>
>>           * The Conneg PWD 3 poll results (
>>             https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/99375/Conneg3PWD/results )
>>             show 10 in favour and no abstentions
>>
>>           * The general consensus on the DCAT v1 discussion is that
>>             we intend to supercede DCAT1 when version 2 becomes a
>>             standard and that we decide on the formulation of text
>>             and links in the top of the DCAT1 page in
>>             https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1177. Please add your
>>             thoughts here
>>
>>           * There are only a few hours left to complete
>>             https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/99375/prof-publish Please
>>             cast your votes
>>
>>
>>
>>         Many thanks
>>
>>         Peter & Karen - chairs
>>
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>         Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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