Process CG conversations about horizontal review

FYI, the W3C Process Community Group (CG) is discussing Process changes 
around horizontal review (HR), including:

-- automatic triggering events, like publishing a FPWD, and
-- making (asking for) review mandatory.

While this has some obvious charms, I have some concerns.

-- Automatic triggers won't indicate if a group has done the 
prerequisite work HR groups expect of them (in our case, going though 
the Questionnaire and fingerprinting guidance docs and writing Privacy 
and Security considerations sections in their docs).

-- They're nailing down too much in Process, which may make it harder 
for us to introduce improvements.


If you're interested, the Process CG discussion can be found in:
https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/130
https://github.com/w3c/w3process/pull/401

Additionally, the guidance we're publishing for how to ask for reviews 
is at:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/DocumentReview#How_to_get_horizontal_review

-- Sam


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Received on Wednesday, 8 July 2020 15:34:15 UTC