FYI: Developing new charter for the Publishing Maintenance Working Group

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Dear all,

please find, below, an extract of the official mail that has been sent to the W3C Member representatives on the new charter for the Publishing Maintenance Working Group. The main goal of the charter is to allow the Working Group to add some new features to EPUB 3.

The new charter draft is public, so is the GitHub repository where issues can be raised. We welcome comments, issues, but also expression of interest to the new charter. There is a reference to the GitHub repository below but, if you are uncomfortable with handling an issue on GitHub, it is o.k. if you send me a mail and I will put it to the issue list in your name.

Thank you

Ivan

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This is an advance notice that the Team is currently working on a new charter for the Publishing Maintenance Working Group

The draft charter is available at:
  https://w3c.github.io/publ-maintenance-wg-charter/

Under the current Working Group charter (expiring in June 2025 [1]), the group is not authorized to publish new versions of the EPUB Recommendation with class 4 changes [2]. The objective of the new charter is to explicitly list features that were discussed/incubated in the Publishing Maintenance Working Group or elsewhere, and which are ready to be added to EPUB as standard features following the standard Recommendation process.

There are no plans to fundamentally change EPUB 3.

We welcome input and feedback on the draft charter. If you wish to make your comments public, you're welcome to raise issues at:
    https://github.com/w3c/publ-maintenance-wg-charter/issues

[1] https://www.w3.org/2023/06/pmwg-charter.html[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#class-4
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Ivan Herman, W3C 
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