Re: New meeting scheduled: April 4th, WebSub only

Thanks Sandro.
Aaron and I have already done a bunch of progress and I believe we can have
all issues closed by next Tuesday.
Yet, this is the one that I am sturgllung the most with:
https://github.com/w3c/websub/issues/16

I understand Tony’s points and I agree that it would be quite an
achievement to allow for stateless subscriptions…
Yet, I don’t think this is practical at scale and will eventually come back
and bite hubs.
I’d love more people’s feedback on how to handle this.
Thanks


On 28 March 2017 at 21:05:06, Sandro Hawke (sandro@hawke.org) wrote:

It turns out we're behind schedule on WebSub. I apologize for not
flagging this sooner. To get to Recommendation status before our
charter runs out, we're on a very tight timeline. Basically, we need to
have all issues closed and all comments addressed, and decide we're
ready for CR, by a week from today. If there are a couple thing's we're
still not sure about, we can leave them as features At Risk in the spec
for another 5 weeks.

The chairs (and WebSub editors) have agreed to a 2 hour meeting, in our
usual time slot, next week. Hopefully we can all stay engaged in
github & email so that meeting goes smoothly, and I can submit our
transition request at the end of the meeting.

Here's what the timeline looks like, if you're curious. It's dictated
by (1) ending by June 30, (2) manual publications only happening on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, (3) us deciding things only on Tuesdays, (4)
transition requests needing 7 days, (5) the patent policy giving 60 days
after CR to exclude patents, (6) the AC needing 14 days after the
exclusion period ends to make their final decisions. The first few of
those might turn out the be flexible, the later ones probably wont.
Hopefully nothing will go wrong and we can just stick to this timeline.

Mar 28 - Final call for wide review, schedule upcoming decision meeting
(7 days)
Apr 4 - WG Decides to request CR, sends transition request (7 days)
Apr 11 or 12 - transition meeting
Apr 13 - Publish CR (review for 28 days until May 11)
May 16 - WG assesses the CR exit criteria are met (two impls of each
feature); Request transition to PR
May 25 - Publish PR
Jun 12 - End of 60 day CFE period (Call-for-Exclusions on Patents)
Jun 26 - End of AC review (14 days after CFE ends, 32 days after PR)
Jun 29 - Publish Rec

Through most of this, the Working Group's job is to be addressing issues
& comments as they come in, hopefully quickly and so the commenter feels
we've handled their comment reasonably. We'll also need the test suite
finished, and to be tracking incoming test results. As long as we get
sufficient implementation reports & are able to handle people's comments
well, things are likely to proceed smoothly.

-- Sandro