- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:25:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > So it's fine for people to raise issues. The point is just that if their > > proposal _has_ already been considered, I don't have the bandwidth to go > > through and rehash the sometimes week-long discussions that such proposals > > deserve to get. So sometimes I (and others) say "we've already considered > > that, but rejected it because..." with some brief description of a problem, > > usually the main problem, rarely the only problem, that affects the > > proposal. > > > > Is that unreasonable? > > It's unreasonable if you say "we", but what it really means "I". I wish I could take all the credit, but seriously, many of the decisions made in the HTML5 spec are a group effort, even if you don't count the discussions on the many lists as being part of the decision process. In particular, for almost all non-trivial changes, I bounce ideas around on IRC as I'm editing the draft. Obviously, at a very practical level, since we're not voting on every change, I get the ultimate blame for the decisions that are made, but I really can't claim all the credit. Everyone is welcome to join the IRC channels, by the way -- #htmlwg on the IRC network and #whatwg on the Freenode network. Logs can be found at: http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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