- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:57:50 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > > > On a broader scale, we are generating *many* emails, reactions, > > documents, and one editor only will shurly miss some reactions. And > > the effort of some editor to understand each other and to make > > compromise should lead to a more clear spec. > > Responsibility for tracking feedback does not need to be in one-to-one > correspondence with ability to directly modify the spec document. > Regardless of how many editors there are, I hope we designate some > additional people to be responsible for issue tracking. In fact I would go further -- I'd say that ideally we would separate the roles of feedback collection, translation, and collation, editing in response to this feedback, and responding to the original commenters. Each of these five areas is a big job, but each requires different skills, and should IMHO be done by different (though possibly overlapping) groups of people. For instance, feedback collection requires trawling blogs and forums for feedback (e.g. people whining about the spec but not actually sending us feedback), trawling bug systems for areas that are vague (a lot of bug reports result in complaints that the spec is vague, but few of those result in actual feedback to the relevant working group), and so forth. Feedback translation requires people who can translate the feedback found in the first step, which can come from all over the world, into the language that the group can understand. Feedback collation is a difficult task that requires skill, as one must take the many hundreds of pieces of feedback on each issue and distill it to short statements with clear use cases and arguments that still do not lose any of the original request. And so forth. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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