- From: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:55:08 -0400
- To: "public-nextweb@w3.org" <public-nextweb@w3.org>
Was having a brief conversation offline and it became evident that perhaps I did not explain my intentions well enough here, so let me try again. The intent is not to formalize a process or anything like that!!! Instead, it is to find think about how we get 'from here to there' and figure out which kinds of things make the process easier. The starting point can be anything: Currently some things start out even in existing WGs as nothing more than an email to a relevant list. In terms of prollyfills, what we need is a working implementation and some kinda doc that describes its proposal. We've had a few attempts at this already and they generally start out pretty informal. That's really fine. The goal of a working implementation is to get it out there, usable/useful to authors, potentially forkable, hopefully forward compatible, etc... That is where the evolution happens - it's a really critical part that has been missing in standards. Assuming the 'slang' begins to pick up, and the rough corners get smoothed out (or forks and some alternative matures), eventually we'd expect to discover use cases, edge cases, etc - as it matures a decent expectation is that it will pick up some tests and better docs and so on. Eventually, as Brendan said, you'll need to work with implementors or people on WGs to cross the finish line. Ideally, I think, things would get more "formal" as it goes... As implementers or WG folks get involved they have to cross a different bar and actually do have a formal process. How this could work well is really an open question. I don't pretend to have answers, I'm just opening the conversation. My suggestion was simply that we pick something that foregoes a bunch of that and figure out what would be a convenient way to make a transition... Let's try some things and see what works and what doesn't. To that end, I chose something that is already specified/picked up by a WG and we just happen to have a fill for. If implementors/WG folks and the community can begin to discuss, maybe try to work through a few, we could start to figure some of these things out. I was thinking that tests might be a really good thing to consider - if prollyfillers know what it is gonna take and have an easy way to hand off in a way that helps the WG or standards body that will ultimately take it up, perhaps they will choose to do so. If we can agree to some basic sanity things and set some good examples that make it easier to review these things, maybe people will follow the lead. Thoughts? -- Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
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