Re: Proposal: use only github for new MSE spec bugs

As a developer very interested in MSE but less involved in the w3c process,
a big +1 to this proposal. Having both trackers is a bit confusing and I
suspect having more activity occurring in github will encourage the huge
community active there to participate more.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> > Would it make sense to make placeholder github issues for existing,
> open, w3c MSE bugs, and restrict all MSE spec bug activity to github issues?
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> I have no problem with us doing as long as we add a comment to each of the
> former 19 Bugzilla bugs pointing forward to the appropriate GitHub issue.
>   I suggest you go ahead and do this ASAP.
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> >2. Is it possible to update the w3c bug tracker to indicate that new MSE
> bugs or activity on existing w3c MSE spec bugs should occur on github's
> issue tracker?
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> I am not sure how to do this.
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> > Which versions of the MSE spec would need updating to reference using
> github as the primary issue tracker for spec bugs (just the current
> editor's draft, or some retro-active editing of earlier published snapshots
> of the spec too?)
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> W3C does not normally change even the Status section of published
> documents.  And for older documents we would NOT want to get rid of the
> pointer to the Bugzilla component since historically it is the right
> pointer.
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> I would recommend that the best way to make sure that people are looking
> at a TR page specification with the correct Status information is to get
> going on turning on automatic publication of Editor’s draft for MSE as we
> have for EME.  I believe Jerry has an action to look into that.
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> /paulc
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> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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> *From:* Matt Wolenetz [mailto:wolenetz@google.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 08, 2015 7:18 PM
> *To:* <public-html-media@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Proposal: use only github for new MSE spec bugs
>
>
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> At the moment, we are using both w3c and github to track open MSE spec
> bugs.
>
> At the recent FOMS 2015 & Demuxed 2015 conferences, we heard praise from
> other attendees of the move by EME to primarily using github's issue
> tracker.
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> In light of EME's move to gh for new issue tracking, external appeals of
> similar for MSE, and to consolidate tracking of all new MSE spec bugs, I
> propose that we move to using solely github for tracking newly opened MSE
> spec bugs.
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> Before moving forward, I would like to understand better:
>
> 1. Would it make sense to make placeholder github issues for existing,
> open, w3c MSE bugs, and restrict all MSE spec bug activity to github issues?
>
> 2. Is it possible to update the w3c bug tracker to indicate that new MSE
> bugs or activity on existing w3c MSE spec bugs should occur on github's
> issue tracker?
>
> 3. Which versions of the MSE spec would need updating to reference using
> github as the primary issue tracker for spec bugs (just the current
> editor's draft, or some retro-active editing of earlier published snapshots
> of the spec too?)
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>