RE: HTML charter and Timed tracks

> My strong, but non-binding, suggestion is that you split this section out into a separate document immediately.

+1

/paulc

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:25 AM
To: Ian Hickson
Cc: Sean Hayes; Paul Cotton; Maciej Stachowiak (mjs@apple.com); public-html@w3.org; Chris Lilley
Subject: Re: HTML charter and Timed tracks

On 05/11/2010 12:02 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Sam Ruby wrote:
>>
>> As this appeared in the document without prior discussion or
>> presentation of rationale
>
> This is false. This topic has been under discussion for over a year, and
> there is rationale available in wiki pages.

And yet you insist that people wait until the rationale has been 
described before criticizing it.[1]

The purpose of my email was simply to ensure that the support for this 
feature is adequately documented.  That and to ensure that if this 
particular WG is not the right place for this work that it finds a good 
home.

The decision process for this working group has been crafted in a way 
that gives the editor considerable latitude.  That being said, I can 
find no provision in the Decision Process that provides a period of time 
during which the participants in the working group are requested to wait 
until the editor declares that items which are ready for comment.

The process by which this feature has been added has proven to be 
disruptive, and this has lead to much unproductive discussion.  My 
strong, but non-binding, suggestion is that you split this section out 
into a separate document immediately.

Either way, I'd like to encourage a rule of thumb at this point in the 
process: if you think something is ready enough to be put into an 
editors draft, then it is ready enough to attract feedback.  If it is 
not ready for such feedback, then don't publish it.  Particularly in a 
draft this is poised to go out as a WG draft in a matter of weeks.

- Sam Ruby
  [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010May/0099.html

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