- From: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:18:24 -0400
- To: "public-swicg@w3c.org" <public-swicg@w3c.org>
- Message-ID: <268a93da-92a6-4b00-8817-c2e1e5840fd2@prodromou.name>
I added an issue to the potential-charters repository with a proposal
for managing scope for the WG:
https://github.com/swicg/potential-charters/issues/83
I think we should consider /all/ the Social Web Working Group
recommendations as in-scope for the new WG, but let the new WG set its
own schedule and prioritisation for maintaining those documents.
I think this would balance the need to maintain all the existing
documents on the one hand against the limited time and attention of the
working group on the other.
As an example of how this could work (and /*not a proposal for an actual
work schedule, please do not at me*/), imagine that, almost immediately,
the workgroup starts with these document revisions:
* Activity Streams 2.1 (core and vocabulary) - incorporate errata,
improve clarity
* ActivityPub 1.1 - incorporate errata, expand media upload, define
replies maintenance, etc.
As this work winds down, and these documents move into the final stages
of recommendation, the WG might take on more work:
* WebSub 1.1 - errata and clarifications
* LOLA 1.0 - define LOLA
(Again, this is just an example schedule. I don't know if WebSub needs a
1.1 update or if that's the highest priority change.) As these were
completed and moved into PR and TR stage, the group might then take on
additional streams of work:
* Activity Streams 2.2 (vocabulary) - expand vocabulary with new terms
* ActivityPub E2EE Messaging - example of new functionality and new
document
* Micropub 1.1 - errata
In this example, the WG is keeping a healthy and productive 2-3 parallel
document pace, but is still covering multiple documents over the period.
The WG could set its own heuristics for initiating new work, such as
having N editors for each active document; having N chairs per active
document workstream; staging work initiated in the SocialCG; community
and implementer demand; and so on.
I think that as a more mature WG doing iterative updates to existing
work, with occasional extensions to that work, it would not be under the
same time pressure as the previous Social Web WG was. If we want, we can
set more healthy and realistic expectations for deliverables, and still
take responsibility for all the docs published by the previous Social
Web WG.
Evan
Received on Friday, 21 March 2025 19:18:33 UTC