Re: Feedback from Liam Quin - Fwd: Re: Staff contacts review of draft Chapter 7 revision

On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:40:31 +0200, Charles McCathie Nevile  
<chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:

> Liam wrote
>> 7. "An editor must be a participant, as a Member representative, Team
>> representative, or Invited Expert in the Group responsible for the
>> document(s) they are editing."
>> This could be read as excluding e.g. a hired professional writer from
>> editing a document, i.e. that in order to be called an editor, a person
>> must be a WG participant; or it could be read as meaning "at least one
>> of hthe editors must be a WG participant". In either case we could not
>> (publish XPath with this rule, because it's developed jointly with two
>> Working Groups. I know, I know, I'm being pedantic, but if we are
>> writing a process to cover what we do, etc etc...

>  Yeah, there are several situations where this (existing) process
> requirement is violated. It isn't clear to me that the rule should be  
> changed, although it is also unclear how to publish a document jointly.
>  This is probably worth addressing seriously, although I believe it is  
> orthogonal to any changes made so far, and could be done in a revision  
> along with other changes to the Process.

I raised ISSUE-93 https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/93

cheers

Chaals

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