Re: Editorial patches staged for merge week 49

Apologies - I should have looked up the actual names: I meant "Committee
Recommendation".
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q74

Read this as "CR" instead of "CD".

Silvia.


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>wrote:

>  The W3C Process does not use the term “Committee Draft” so I don’t
> understand your statement “All new content in a HTML5.1 spec is only
> proposed until the spec goes to CD”.  Do you mean “Working Draft”, “Last
> Call Working Draft” or something else?****
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> *From:* Silvia Pfeiffer [mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 1:48 AM
> *To:* Paul Cotton
> *Cc:* Sam Ruby; public-html-admin@w3.org
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> *Subject:* Re: Editorial patches staged for merge week 49****
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> Committee Draft.****
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
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> >All new content in a HTML5.1 spec is only proposed until the spec goes to
> CD ****
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> What do you mean by "CD"?
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> *From: *Silvia Pfeiffer
> *Sent: *09/12/2012 12:31 AM
> *To: *Sam Ruby
> *Cc: *public-html-admin@w3.org****
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> *Subject: *Re: Editorial patches staged for merge week 49****
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> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:**
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> On 12/08/2012 04:40 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:****
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> So, wrt extension specs: the way I understand them is that they are for
> the HTML5 spec: they specify features that somebody hopes to still get
> into HTML5, rather than HTML5.1 [1].****
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> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html****
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> I disagree.  See:
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> "During this process, we will encourage modularity as a preferred way to
> approach introducing new features into the 5.1 release."
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> Reference:
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> http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html#html5.1-milestones
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> Sure, modularity is a good way to introduce big features. But what about
> small features?
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> I don't think we want to go to the extent of making every single patch an
> extension spec. All new content in a HTML5.1 spec is only proposed until
> the spec goes to CD - actually really until it goes to REC, but with more
> rigorous weeding of features from about CD on. I don't see it practical
> until CD to work with an extension spec for every change, or even every new
> small feature.
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> Any big feature - such as the introduction of encrypted media - is
> certainly better introduced through a separate spec. However, there is a
> difference between a modular new spec and an extension spec as for HTML5.
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> Silvia.****
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