- From: Ralph Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:53:21 -0400
- To: public-epub3@w3.org, public-publishingcg@w3.org
- Cc: W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
I write to describe some (mostly administrative) changes that are planned on the near term for the EPUB 3 and Publishing CGs. The short version is that these changes will only impact a few of you who have joined the current Publishing CG and not joined the EPUB 3 CG. Those few of you will need to re-join the Publishing CG after we make the changes. We will send you individual emails when that occurs. Huge thanks to all of the CG chairs; Dave Cramer, Rachel Comerford, Jeff Xu, and Mateus Teixeira. Some are planning to continue in their current roles of CG chair and some are expecting to become the chairs of the proposed EPUB 3 Working Group. The longer version: With the recently announced plan [1] to propose to charter an EPUB 3 Working Group to advance the EPUB3 Community Group Specification to a W3C Recommendation the role of the EPUB 3 CG changes from spec maintenance to review of the planned Working Group's work, community support, furthering deployment of EPUB 3, and whatever other EPUB-related outreach tasks the community wishes. At the same time the original role of the current Publishing CG becomes even more vital; to be the incubator community for Publishing@W3C as described in that CG's home repository [2]. Incubations can inform the Recommendation-track work on EPUB 3 as well as further AudioBook work and any other aspect of web publishing technology that the community wishes. There is some administrative overhead in maintaining separate Community Groups. And noting that the current EPUB 3 CG has precedent for "task forces" [3], we plan to combine the EPUB3 CG and the Publishing CG, keeping the name "Publishing Community Group" for the combination and referring to the existing EPUB 3 community as a task force within the Publishing CG. We intend to retain the two mailing lists and the two GitHub repositories; they will all be "owned by" the Publishing CG. As the membership of the current EPUB 3 CG is much larger than that of the current Publishing CG, our plan is to simply rename the current EPUB 3 CG. Those who have joined the EPUB3 CG should not have to take any action; you will only see the formal name of the CG change. Those small number of you who have joined only the current Publishing CG will have to re-join the (renamed) Publishing CG. We will let you know individually when that becomes necessary. We thank you for your continued interest and participation in the activities of Publishing@W3C. Ralph Swick, W3C Architecture and Technology Lead, and Ivan Herman, W3C Publishing Technical Specialist [1] https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/03/listen-to-the-people-the-future-of-epub-and-new-directions-for-publishing-w3c/ [2] https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/ [3] https://github.com/w3c/publ-cg/wiki#sign-up-for-task-forces
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