Repo: should we take it up?

This has been discussed in a lot of contexts, but I'd like to propose that
maybe we are far enough a long that we should: a) decide if we want to take
this up as a group b) if so, what exactly should it's goals be.

My own personal view is that we should, and here are my thoughts about
goals.

minimally:

- provide a repo, under prollyfill.org maybe
- give devs an easy way to submit and a place to discover them

Ideally though, i think it has a lot of potential uses we have discussed on
the list too.

It could provide metadata that tracks useful information from both the dev
point of view and implementer/standards body points of view.

It could create a sort of simple, more grassroots/public, shadow process
toward standardization of "slang".  By defining some hurdles and milestones
it would be possible for developers to see something like a caniuse and
manage their risk tolerance based on how far along something is.  Simple
things like whether it has been peer reviewed, whether it has tests,
whether (and how many) members of a relevant working group endorse the
proposal, how many people "like" it, etc would help.  We would have to
discuss details, but this might be a way to reduce the noise enough to
allow standards folks to follow things that reach a certain level.  It
might also collect information about whether it is a plugin for a framework
vs something standalone.  This could be useful because it gives a sense at
how useful the framework is, what sorts of use-cases it enables, etc.

Likewise, since this group is vendor neutral, we might be able to think
about how to set up things (at least those that meet certain criteria) as a
trusted source CDN and see if vendors can give it some special treatments -
yoav's special-cache thing, for example.

Others?  This is intended to start a discussion more than be a very
specific proposal.

Brian

Received on Saturday, 29 June 2013 19:54:53 UTC