Re: DXWG Plenary: 2019-12-03

I understand that situation Annette, but I wonder if there's a way of
better capturing the essence of the concerns and a route to addressing
them.

Perhaps having an abstention option with scope for adding the github
issue/s would give us a potential route.

What do you/colleagues think?

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, 19:43 Annette Greiner, <amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Annette Greiner (she)
>>> NERSC Data and Analytics Services
>>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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