Re: Open issues on Pointer Events - some triage needed

On 02/12/2018 05:34 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> as discussed, after some inactivity, I'm hoping to get back into gear and for the group to push Pointer Events 2 out, as for the most part I believe 
> we're in a solid position with some good actual real-world browser support. However, there are quite a few issues still open against the spec - in 
> many cases, there was initial discussion and activity, but it then petered out.
> 
> I've gone through and tried to put all issues (51, at the time of writing) into some rough "buckets":
> 
> * TESTS https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Atest
> these appear to be mostly related to test framework?
> 
> * ENHANCEMENT https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aenhancement
> these feel to me like nice-to-have/feature requests that go beyond what we're currently aiming for in PE2 (or that would take quite a bit of time to 
> flesh out properly at this point)
> 
> * QUESTION https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aquestion
> a mixed bag of questions/clarifications - these are probably the ones we should address most urgently if they relate to anything being vague/unclear
> 
> *BUG https://github.com/w3c/pointerevents/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Abug
> probably the wrong term, but used this for things that are arguably a bug in our spec text (i.e. a clear omission)
> 
> Now my question: would it be possible for all of us collectively to have a look through these issues and to triage them? Keeping in mind we'd ideally 
> want to get to a point very soon where everything in scope for PE is addressed (with sufficient clarity in spec language), and anything that is a 
> new/nice to have/future is deferred for possible PE Level 3 (whether this happens is still open to discussion).
> 
> With a lot of these issues, the material goes quite outside of my technical comfort zone, but if you can help me out with a rough outline of what the 
> spec may need to say / what needs changing or clarifying, I can help out with further wordsmithing.
> 
> Do WG members feel it would be good to fall back to regular weekly voice calls? Or are we still happy working/coordinating via GitHub?


Triaging calls can be rather effective to sort out what to do with (spec) issues. Maybe not every week, but twice a month? And once all the issues 
have been gone through, just stop having calls again.

-Olli

> 
> Let me know,
> 
> P

Received on Monday, 12 February 2018 19:08:12 UTC