Re: Call for Consensus to publish WebVTT as a Candidate Recommendation

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
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> On 30/03/2018, 20:47, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>David jumped the gun with his email a little - Thierry and I first
>>needed to land that pull request.
>>
>>You can find the proper link at
>>https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/blob/gh-pages
>>/archives/2018-04-15/Overview.html
>>.
>
> The links to Changes from FPWD WebVTT and to Diff from previous Working
> Draft WebVTT are raw html, so following them from here takes you to the
> HTML source. Is the idea that the webmaster will tidy this up and host and
> serve them from /TR, or that they will be served from somewhere else and
> linked?


No, that's just what the htmlpreview service does. The links in the
source document are relative to the path that the Overview file is in
and will be found when moved to TR without having to change anything.

Regards,
Silvia.


>
> kind regards,
>
> Nigel
>
>
>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>Silvia.
>>
>>
>>On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 3:43 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>> Thierry wrote the status of this document, not me.
>>>
>>> I think he also has a better URL for it, but I can¹t find it.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 30, 2018, at 9:23 , Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi David et al.,
>>>>
>>>> This document is not hosted on the W3C github repo? Why not simply
>>>> create a CR branch at https://github.com/w3c/webvtt ?
>>>>
>>>> Also, the following paragraph should be removed since this
>>>> specification is managed by TTWG exclusively at this point -- the CG
>>>> has no control over it.
>>>
>>> No formal control, indeed, but we are trying (and so far succeeding) to
>>>avoid forks and differences, so I prefer to keep the paragraph.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> """Work on this specification is being undertaken both in the Web
>>>> Media Text Tracks Community Group as well as in the W3C Timed Text
>>>> Working Group. The latter group works towards a W3C Recommendation for
>>>> reference purposes with interoperability requirements, while the
>>>> former is a Draft Community Group Report that continues to evolve."""
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> -- Pierre
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:16 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> [sending again as plain text in case the HTML format was hiding a
>>>>>spurious link]
>>>>>
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> following this week's call giving conceptual approval pending the
>>>>>preparation of the CR document, and the preparation by Thierry and
>>>>>Silvia of the CR draft at
>>>>><https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/webvt
>>>>>t-spec/blob/f8da4f27205ed2c11b7dedbf46d91b363eaafe9b/archives/2018-04-1
>>>>>5/Overview.html> is now ready for us to request transition to
>>>>>Candidate Recommendation: I think that the obvious typo in ³Diff from
>>>>>previous² has been or will imminently be fixed. This email is a call
>>>>>for consensus to make the transition based on this version of the
>>>>>document; barring any objections within the WG's Decision Policy
>>>>>period of 10 working days as defined in the Charter, I will ask for
>>>>>this transition request to be made.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Thierry/Silvia, if there is a better link, let us know)
>>>>>
>>>>> For transition request purposes, assuming no objections, I will
>>>>>record this as a resolution in the minutes of the next call.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please review the document and if possible confirm that you agree
>>>>>with this resolution; silence will be taken as acceptance, but an
>>>>>explicit approval would be much appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you spot any problems please raise issues as normal on the GitHub
>>>>>repository. We can make minor editorial fixes such as typo fixes any
>>>>>time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to everyone who contributed to the push to get to this state
>>>>>over the last few months: this represents a lot of hard work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> David Singer
>>> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>>>
>>
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