- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:28:09 -0500
- To: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>
- Cc: "Steve Faulkner" <sfaulkner@paciellogroup.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, wai-xtech@w3.org, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
How can an HTMLWG open issue be closed if it already has an action item is bound to it and that action item is in progress? The history: On October 23, 2007 several members of the HTMLWG requested that PFWG review Omitting alt Attribute for Critical Content [1]. On February 6, 2008 PFWG issued and official response [2] resulting in issue 31 [3] On February 21, 2008 at the HTML WG weekly Teleconference [4] Dan issued action item 54, for "Gregory Rosmaita to work with SteveF to draft text for HTML 5 spec to require producers/authors to include @alt on img elements" [5]. I attended the HTMLWG teleconference tonight. It was a small group, just Mike Smith, Anne van Kesteren, and me. Mike extended the alt action item due date to April 17 [6] since we haven't heard back from PFWG on Steve's request about normative language [7]. Few minutes later, ISSUE-31 (Omitting alt Attribute) was closed by the editor [8]. But the associated action item 54 was not closed [5]. Just minutes after that, Dan sent a message to html-public that said: "I'm inclined to let 'open' mean we have a clear plan or next step for working on it, vs 'raised"' which means it's probably an issue but nobody has volunteered to address it or move it forward." [9] So I ask, how can issue 31 be closed if it already has an action item 54 bound to it and that action item is in progress and has volunteers? Best Regards, Laura [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2007Oct/0044.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0082.html [3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/31 [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2008JanMar/0019.html [5] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/54 [6] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/10-html-wg-minutes.html#item03 [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Mar/0234.html [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Apr/0220.html [9] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Apr/0221.html -- Laura L. Carlson
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