Re: CfC: Adopt new W3C process for Media Capture documents (deadline 12 December)

on behalf of Josh Soref in DAP:

On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Josh Soref <jsoref@blackberry.com> wrote:

> +1
> 
> On 12/5/14, 11:10 AM, "Frederick Hirsch" <w3c@fjhirsch.com> wrote:
> 
>> All:
>> 
>> The following Call for Consensus (CfC) is on the Media Capture Task Force
>> list, and concludes 12 December (next Friday)
>> 
>> The CfC is below.
>> 
>> If you are interested and are not participating in the Media Capture Task
>> Force, I suggest you join [a].
>> 
>> The purpose of this email is to alert all on the DAP list of this
>> proposed process change in the task force.
>> 
>> If you have any questions or concerns please respond on the Task Force
>> mailing list  public-media-capture@w3.org (i.e. do not reply to this
>> message),
>> 
>> regards, Frederick
>> 
>> Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
>> Chair DAP
>> @fjhirsch
>> 
>> [a] http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/#mediacapture
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
>>> Subject: CfC: Adopt new W3C process for Media Capture documents
>>> Date: December 5, 2014 at 8:04:06 AM EST
>>> To: "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
>>> Cc: Frederick Hirsch <w3c@fjhirsch.com>
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> the W3C adopted a new process during the summer [1], it came into effect
>>> on August 5. It is optional for groups to adopt until August 2016.
>>> 
>>> There is an extensive FAQ on the transition to the new process available
>>> [2].
>>> 
>>> The main change is that it removes Last Call: groups are expected to
>>> get wide reviews before going into Candidate Recommendation, and CR is
>>> the "final" review signal; in particular, contrarily to the current
>>> process, if you make substantive changes during CR, you don't have to go
>>> back to Last Call, you "just" republish an updated CR (while still
>>> making sure the relevant parties review the said changes)
>>> 
>>> There is some early guidance on how you get "wide reviews" without a
>>> Last Call signal in [3]. Essentially, the group asks the relevant
>>> parties for reviews when the relevant section stabilizes.
>>> 
>>> Given the maturity of our documents we can choose to use either the old
>>> or the new process for any of our docs (at least until Aug 2016).
>>> 
>>> The decision to use one or the other process is a decision for the group
>>> to make.
>>> 
>>> We think the new process is an improvement; its main drawback is
>>> that W3C as a community has less experience with it (obviously).
>>> 
>>> We propose that we switch to the new process for all documents except
>>> "Media Capture and Streams" now. Given that we're pushing to get "Media
>>> Capture and Streams" to Last Call soon, we think we should stay with
>>> the 
>>> old process for that document until it is in Last Call, and then change
>>> to the new process.
>>> 
>>> Do you agree? Please respond by EOB Friday December 12 (silence will be
>>> interpreted as "yes").
>>> 
>>> Harald and Stefan
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/
>>> [2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/ProcessTransition2014
>>> [3] https://www.w3.org/wiki/DocumentReview
>> 
>> 
> 

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