Re: Spec organizations and prioritization

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:20:48 +0100, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu  
<kennyluck@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> (12/03/23 23:20), Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> The way I (and others) approached this is by forking part of the HTML
>> standard and demonstrating our ability to maintain it and address
>> feedback more effectively than Ian. That's how you do this.
>
> And the only such a fork from a non-browser related person was Areyh
> Gregor's Editing API spec, but he doesn't really count as a non-browser
> person for a while now because he got contracted by Google and then  
> Mozilla.
>
> Seriously, as far as I can imagine, the more effective way of getting
> resource here is if we first promise the newcomer that he/she can be
> listed as an editor and then he/she can apply company resource to work
> on the specs. I know that doing this instead of the "demonstrate your
> ability first" approach might result in specs with bad quality (I know
> this happened before), but given Hixie expressed opinions that he longer
> cares about W3C HTML5, I see little reasons why we can't try this out
> for W3C HTML5.

I'm happy to be proven wrong.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/

Received on Saturday, 24 March 2012 09:35:45 UTC