Re: the MathML comments

I would say this is the proper venue to state that before asking for
volunteers to review other specifications for the group, the group
formalize a procedure. One that can also adapt to immediate deadlines,
and disinterested WG members.

Shelley

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Shelley,
>
> I do appreciate that you collected the comments and passed along the
> feedback. That was excellent work. In the course of the discussion, it
> seemed the MathML WG expected that HTML WG members would understand and
> stand behind the comments. At this point I clarified that, while you indeed
> duly volunteered to provide cross-WG feedback, these comments had not been
> fully reviewed or assessed for WG consensus. Thus, other WG members might
> not be able to stand behind or explain the comments (or might not even be
> aware of them yet). This was after several confused people asked for an
> explanation from me as co-chair.
>
> I believe these statements were correct, and do not detract from the work
> you put in. I just wanted the Math WG members present to understand that
> many/most HTML WG members would not be able to help them interpret the
> comments.
>
> If you have further concerns, let's take it offline or to www-archive.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:
>
>> There is no procedure in place when it comes to how we comment to
>> other groups. I was operating under a deadline, which I needed to
>> meet, because I have another task deadline, also for this group, also
>> before November 11th. As it was, I also put the comments out for
>> review, and modified the comments accordingly.
>>
>> I'm sorry that some members of this group were disappointed with the
>> comments we developed for MathML, and that I went ahead and sent the
>> comments to the Math WG. I would like to remind this group that no one
>> was willing to step forward to do any comments before I and Joe
>> volunteered.
>>
>> I am disappointed that one of the co-chairs of this group degenerated
>> my effort to the Math WG at the TPAC meeting this week [1].
>>
>> Shelley
>>
>> [1]  http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/html-wg/20091107#l-21
>>
>
>

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