Re: updated draft charter

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:
> Following the discussion that it should be up to the working group to
> prioritize work items even if this means that not all of them are
> completed within the two year initial charter period. I have added back
> the deliverables that were dropped when splitting them into phase one
> and two. The phase two deliverables are now listed in alphabetical
> order. If you feel we should drop one or more deliverables, this is now
> a good time to argue your case before we proceed to the AC Review.

I believe we should drop all the Phase 2 deliverables except the following list:

Accounts API
Bluetooth API
Calendar API
Contacts API
Media Storage API
Network Interface API
Resource Lock API
Secure Elements API
Serial API
System Settings API

The biggest risk I see for this working group is that we try to work
on too many deliverables at once.  If we do that, we'll have
insufficient expertise to review the work, and we'll end up producing
a bunch of low-quality specifications that won't be widely
implemented.  We've seen this failure mode in previous working groups,
and we should learn from those experiences and avoid it here.

>From a practical point of view, we're going to need to narrow down the
deliverables at some point.  I'd much prefer to agree on a shorter
list now before I commit to investing resources in this working group.

Adam


> We are looking for horizontal reviews of the draft charter from the
> perspectives of security, privacy, accessibility and internationalization.
>
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> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
>

Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:30:49 UTC