Re: [PNG] Cancel meeting? Start work on Fourth Edition?

On 2025-03-14 16:13, Chris Blume (ProgramMax) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> PNG Third Edition had a Candidate Recommendation snapshot 
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CR-png-3-20250313/>.
> Also, the PNG group has entered a patent call for exclusion period 
> until 5-12-2025.
> When we all joined the PNG group, we agreed to a royalty-free 
> licensing commitment. If your organization has a patent that might 
> conflict, now is the time to look into it and resolve it.
The scope of that 60-day call for exclusions is strictly limited to 
features that were *not *included in the previous CR Snapshot, which was 
on 21 Sept 2023:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/CR-png-3-20230921/

Here is the list of changes

https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/CR-png-3-20250313/#F-ChangeList

>
> I think this means after the exclusion period we can submit the 
> snapshot to W3C for review. So I think that means the group is in a 
> holding pattern for at least 2 months.
We can start a call for consensus in parallel, so that that the Proposed 
Recommendation is published as soon as the exclusion period ends.
>
> That is a long time. We might want to start on Fourth Edition, 
> parallelizing the work a bit.
>
> Would you all prefer we wait until Third Edition has completed or 
> would you prefer we hit the ground running with Fourth Edition?
> Said another way, should we cancel Monday's meeting or create a Fourth 
> Edition branch?

Hopefully, the Third Edition changes from here on out will be limited to:

- boilerplate changes for Proposed Rec and for Rec
- changes section which says "changes: none" for those two

Thus, a separate branch (or directory or whatever) is absolutely needed 
for us to merge any PR aimed at Fourth Edition.

-- 
Chris Lilley
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Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Technical Programming Team, Core Web Design