Re: PLEASE VOTE on publishing BP

On 12/18/2013 03:27 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> 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 unpublished (but still in its current location on the web).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


+0.61803398875

I acknowledge that the document is not where it ought to be. IMHO, this 
is about resolving whether to share something with imperfections vs. not 
making the contributions easily visible for greater good. I pick the 
former in this particular case.

-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 21:22:15 UTC