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

I'll cancel this upcoming meeting. I have no discussion topics prepared,
anyway.
For the following meeting in 2 weeks, I'll prepare a Fourth Edition branch.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:

>
> 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
> @svgeesus@mastodon.scot
> Technical Director @ W3C
> W3C Technical Programming Team, Core Web Design
>
>