Useful and timely datapoint: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/PJ_E04kcFb8 Alex Russell on the WICG >From my perspective this has been going very well. Well enough, in fact, > that we're now going to *require Googlers to use this process for all new > web platform features regardless of their eventual destination in the > formal process. The intent is for new designs to iterate inside the WICG > process*, perhaps to the point of shipping, and then graduate to a more > formal venue. This process preserves the ability to get broad participation > from other browser engine teams while lowering the social and process > hurdles for web developers and community members to participate in the > design phase. -- Regards SteveF Current Standards Work @W3C <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/> On 19 April 2016 at 16:55, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote: > > From: John Foliot [mailto:john.foliot@deque.com] > > Sent: 19 April 2016 16:26 > > > > From: Travis Leithead [mailto:travis.leithead@microsoft.com] > > > Sent: 19 April 2016 15:44 > > > > I don't want this to sound like I'm trying to shut down this thread > > > > (I'm not), but this sounds like a great idea to put through the WICG > > > > incubation process. > > > > Sorry, I totally disagree (a huge -1) > > > > Despite all the best intentions in the world, the WICG is a moribund and > non- > > functioning Community Group (as are roughly 90% of the Community Groups > > in existence). A quick check of that CG's mailing list Archives surfaces > exactly > > *2* emails, dating from July of 2015. > > > > Most WICG discussion happens on Discourse [1], where there have been about > 60 messages since the start of this month. Discourse is listed among the > tools used by WICG in their charter [2], though the preference for > Discourse could arguably be made more obvious (one to take up with WICG if > you think so). > > > Is there a particular reason why this discussion *can't* continue to > happen > > where it started? > > The WP work mode for HTML is to incubate new ideas before they're migrated > onto the Recc track. We want to be sure that new ideas have definition, as > well as support from authors and implementors, before they morph into new > HTML modules. > > Léonie > [1] https://discourse.wicg.io/ > [2] https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/ > > -- > @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem. > > > > > >
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