Re: Merging git history for jws-2020

+1 Manu - will raise on CCG today

Mike Prorock
CTO, Founder
https://mesur.io/



On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:31 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 7/19/22 10:13 AM, Orie Steele wrote:
> > I just need permission from the group to proceed, I assume we want to
> preserve
> > the history of the suite and the contributors who helped move it along
> prior
> > to the vc wg.
>
> Hold up, Mike and Orie are right, the history here is important and
> there's an
> easier way to do this -- just transfer the CCG repo and rename it once it's
> transferred.
>
> HOWEVER, we need to follow W3C process before doing that.
>
> We have CCG input documents w/ history, PRs, and issues intact, let's not
> break all of that by only merging the histories.
>
> The right order of operations here, IMHO, is to not create new repos in the
> WG, but to transfer the existing repos from CCG.
>
> I'll also note that we need to do the FCGS release process to move those
> items
> over from CCG to VCWG:
>
> https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/final/
>
> To do that, we need two things:
>
> 1. A resolution from the VCWG to pull in the CCG
>    documents, and
> 2. A FCGS release from the CCG for the specifications.
>
> There's a process here designed to ensure that the IP agreements follow the
> contributions to date, let's follow it. Not doing so exposes the WG to a
> variety of IP issues that the W3C Process is there to protect against.
>
> MikeP, let's raise this as an agenda item for the CCG call today. We need
> to
> get this ball moving for all CCG documents.
>
> -- manu
>
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