Re: CfC: Adopt new W3C process for Media Capture documents

I agree fwiw. It simplified things for the WG.

Best Regards,
Silvia.
On 6 Dec 2014 00:05, "Stefan Håkansson LK" <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>
wrote:

> 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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