Re: HTML plan

It's great to see this happening and many thanks to all involved in pushing
this.


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Ian Devlin
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On 19 January 2016 at 20:20, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We've put a new draft of the HTML specification into GitHub:
> http://github.com/w3c/html.
>
> You can read the editor's draft:
> http://w3c.github.io/html.
>
> It is based on the W3C HTML 5.1 build scripts, synchronised to the WHATWG
> source from 12th January 2016.
>
> We would like to check the interoperability of those changes, and work
> towards a new Recommendation, with the understanding that anything which
> isn't demonstrably interoperable when we publish will be removed from the
> specification proposed as a Recommendation and incorporated into a later
> update when it is.
>
> We welcome all pull requests for outstanding issues, in particular to fix
> important interoperability bugs such as those affecting web developers
> working on production web sites. Pull requests with supporting data to
> justify a change are actively encouraged. All you need is a GitHub account,
> and if you are not a member of the Web Platform working group, please
> remember we work to W3C's patent policy terms [1]. This means anyone can
> easily help us improve the existing HTML spec by contributing corrections
> and clarifications.
>
> If you want to add a new feature to HTML, we encourage you to develop a
> specification in the Web Platform Incubator community group [2] (or
> elsewhere if you like). Wherever you work on the proposal, you should
> consider bringing it to the Web Platform working group when it has buy-in
> from a sizeable community who are prepared to ship it in production, when
> it
> is "reasonably clear" what the rough architecture is, but before you have
> got every last detail sorted out. When a proposal has sufficient buy-in to
> move it along the W3C Recommendation Track Process, bring it to this
> Working
> Group for wider testing and review, and formal standardisation. See the
> "intent to migrate" template [3] for the kind of questions the Working
> Group
> will ask about new proposals.
>
> When HTML5 was published W3C announced its intention to continue publishing
> updates, based on interoperable deployment, every year or so.  We would
> like
> to meet this goal and publish a new improved Working Draft rapidly, as a
> first step towards meeting that commitment to the community.
>
> The specification has been converted to be generated directly from the
> source in GitHub, using Bikeshed [4]. Making bug fixes means editing HTML
> source code. You should then run the Bikeshed processor to check for build
> errors - this can be done locally, or online.
>
> One of our first tasks will be to triage the outstanding bugs in Bugzilla
> [5], fix and resolve any quick editorial issues, resolve feature requests
> with a recommendation to take the idea to the Web Platform Incubator
> community group, and migrate all other issues to GitHub. Please file new
> issues in GitHub.
>
> A year ago, there was a lot of discussion about modularising HTML and the
> working group charter [6] calls this out as a deliverable, citing a
> proposal
> that Robin Berjon worked on [7]. The feedback we have received on the
> proposed split by chapter is that it doesn't provide the benefits that
> modularisation promises. To do this properly will require refactoring of
> the
> specification. We would still like to do this, but we recognise it is a lot
> of work and there are drawbacks as well as benefits.
>
> One approach to test modularisation is to encourage people working on a
> specific section to split it out from the "main" HTML specification, move
> it
> independently to Recommendation, so that it can be referenced normatively
> from the base specification. This way we can get some experience of the
> process without undertaking a massive project before we really know the
> costs and benefits.
>
> We welcome feedback from WG participants on this approach, and on the HTML
> plan itself.
>
> Finally, we also welcome expressions of interest from anybody who would
> like
> to join the editing team - for which the reward is hard work and the
> satisfaction of a job well done. While anybody can submit a pull request
> proposing a change to the specification, the editors will work together to
> review pull requests and integrate them when they are ready.
>
> Regards,
> Web Platform Working Group chairs and Team contacts
>
> [1] W3C Patent Policy
>     http://www.w3.org/Consortium/facts#patpol
>
> [2] Web Platform Incubator Community Group (WICG)
>     https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/
>
> [3] Intent to Migrate
>     https://wicg.github.io/admin/intent-to-migrate.html
>
> [4] Bikeshed
>     https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed
>
> [5] Bugzilla bugs
>     http://tinyurl.com/nkjxluk
>     http://tinyurl.com/j78uzg3
>
> [6] Web Platform Working Group Charter
>     http://www.w3.org/2015/10/webplatform-charter.html
>
> [7] Robin Berjon's module proposal
>     http://darobin.github.io/breakup/specs/
>
> --
> @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem
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