PLEASE VOTE on publishing BP

Summary: should we go ahead and publish bp as it stands today? vote asap.

Following the emails of yesterday [1] [2], there's been some 
disagreement about whether it might still be possible to publish Best 
Practices.   The chairs have agreed to hold an email vote this week; 
deadline is the end of the usual meeting time (about 26 hours from when 
I'm sending this).     If you have a problem with this deadline, please 
say so, but we don't have a lot of options.   We wont physically be able 
to publish until January, so if you have a procedural complain in the 
next two weeks, there will be time to consider it.

There will be an informal meeting, at the usual time tomorrow, during 
which people can discuss BP if they want, but the email votes will be 
what counts.

The document under consideration is here (frozen):

    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/4dbafa673d70/bp/index.html

and the diff from Friday's version is here:

    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/bp/diff-1213-1218.html

Please respond via email with a vote (+1 if you support, 0 abstain, -1 
formal objection, in between to show nuance if you want) on the proposal 
below.   If you would vote higher with some small edit, please provide 
the edit and we'll try to see if there's email consensus for it.   Feel 
free to make other statements, but please keep it brief.   If anyone 
votes -1 or if only a few people vote +1, the document will be left 
unpublished (but still in its current location on the web).

    *PROPOSED: Publish*
    https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/4dbafa673d70/bp/index.html, with
    minimal edits necessary to make it pubrules compliant and fix simple
    typos.    We believe that the document in its current form expresses
    Best Practices for publishing Government Linked Data. We understand
    it might be updated by another group in the future or might remain
    as-is.

Thank you for your prompt response.

        -- Sandro (in consultation with the chairs & Phil)

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/2013Dec/0069.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-wg/2013Dec/0071.html etc

Received on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 14:27:55 UTC