- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:51:15 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: >> >> >> >> If you're part of the team, get with the team. If not, let's end all >> >> pretense that this group is doing anything effective [...] >> > >> > I don't understand what this has to do with meetings. Could you >> > elaborate? >> >> When issues come up in the teleconferences, they're usually put on hold >> because you're not there to provide either opinion or answer. > > Yes, that is another way in which teleconferences suck. They require > synchronous participation from other people who may not be present, and > when they're absent, the meeting fails. > > >> And if you are part of the team, that means that you have to, sometimes, >> participate in a manner that the team chooses, unless the choice is cost >> or otherwise prohibitive. > > I have described how I believe teleconference meetings to be prohibitive. > > >> > I have attended literally hundreds of W3C meetings, both >> > teleconferences and face-to-face, hosted by dozens of chairmen >> > including many who claimed that they were unusual and were able to >> > keep meetings productive, and I have uniformly found them to be a >> > waste of time. >> >> Then I believe it is in your best interest to work with the chairs of >> this group to come up with an alternative, or a way to make the meetings >> useful, rather than disrespect those who spend time and effort trying to >> make these meetings work. > > We have an alternative that works fantastically. It's called e-mail. > > >> OK, I hereby volunteer to be the editor of the specification related to >> HTML Tables, and to the part of the specification supposedly addressing >> issues of semantic metadata. >> >> I'm serious -- where do I sign up, and when can I get editing rights? > > You already have editing rights. Just start writing. You don't have to ask > anyone's permission. There is plenty of precedent for this; when a spec of > sufficient quality comes up that replaces a section of the HTML5 spec, I > remove the text in HTML5 and instead point (if appropriate) to the new > text. This has happened with XMLHttpRequest, the Selectors API, Window > (which was later remerged in), the URL parsing and resolving sections, the > Content Sniffing section, and for a number of other documents that I still > edit (Web Socket API, Web Socket Protocol, Web Storage, Server-sent > Events, and Web Workers). > > > Still setting all the rules, eh, Ian? S
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