- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 02:10:00 -0700
- To: "public-dxwg-wg@w3.org" <public-dxwg-wg@w3.org>
All, As provided by David Browning, this explains the changes you will encounter as you do your final review of DCAT. ----- The document that we are asking approval for is the current editors draft at https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/. During the period of the review, we'll ensure this does not change, though we may choose to incorporate minor or editorial changes as per https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/wiki/Steps-to-Recommendation-2019 after the review. As a reminder, the background to this is that at the end of July, the WG voted that it was still happy to proceed to CR and delegated the detailed timing to the sub-group/editors (https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/99375/dcat2cr/results) This reinforced the original plenary vote back on 21st May that we could proceed to further feedback and wider review. To summarise the changes since then: There have only been two material changes to normative text since end May - both based on wider feedback - one on ODRL, and the other on geospatial concerns. The one significant positioning change has been the marking fo certain features as ’at risk’ since we are unsure that we will have adequate implementation evidence by the end of the Candidate Recommendation phase (latest 31st October). Procedurally, marking these as ‘at risk’ has little cost and would allow us to remove them if we can’t show evidence rather than having to repeat the whole of the CR phase - see https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#candidate-rec Since end July, there has been much editing work but most of this has been classified as editorial. It may be helpful to explain the github issue/pull request status. Potential features for this revision work were allocated the the DCAT CR milestone. Particular issues where there was consensus that the issues MUST be addressed are tagged as critical. The current critical DCAT CR issues can be seen at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Adcat+milestone%3A%22DCAT+CR%22+label%3Acritical At the time of posting, all these issue related to other resources that need to be provided (turtle files, namespace file) to support the normative candidate recommendation (or are marked due for closing). These need to be addressed before raising the transition request, so we will aim to do these during the review period. There are (currently) 5 other issues allocated to the DCAT CR milestone (here) that need some processing - generally they don't impact the recommendation or will be marked for future attention since they may be best addressed in a primer or other supporting notes. (signed: David Browning) -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net skype: kcoylenet
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