Re: Invited expert agreement

On 12/19/2014 07:29 AM, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote:
> 19.12.2014, 14:46, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>:
>> On 12/19/2014 05:46 AM, chaals@yandex-team.ru wrote:
>>>   + rigo@
>>>   - singer@, jeff@
>>>
>>>   Hi Sam,
>>>
>>>   I am seriously uncomfortable with a document that looks for all the world like the real thing, with no clues that it is a modified version, being put out there in public. Putting up text for discussion seems reasonable, but this page as published on your site does not. I'm hoping that you will change it to be clear that it is a proposal, before taking the discussion much further afield.
>>
>> First, you seem to be responding to a note that I never received.
>
> Hmm. Good thing I replied here then...
>
>> I don't know where it was sent, but I can't find it in the web archives:
>>
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Dec/author.html
>
> Odd. I sent it in reply to the thread.
>
>> Second, patches welcome.  Seriously.
>
> Do I send you an edited version, or is there some better way?

Update: Chaals did send me an edited version, which I have posted:

http://intertwingly.net/stories/2014/12/18/08-invited-expert.html

Thanks!

If people would like to collaborate on this, I'll gladly move this 
content to GitHub and accept pull requests.

>> I state my concerns.  There is little progress.  You suggest that I take
>> a stab at it, and I do, and at which point there starts to be some progress.
>>
>> Now you state your concerns.  Good.  That's how we make progress.  I
>> suggest that you draft whatever it will take to address those concerns.
>
> OK. Seems fair.
>
>>    In return, I'll promise to be responsive.
>
> I already took that as an implicit promise, and one I believe you generally offer.

Indeed.  More generally, I actively seek opportunities to convert 
documents that I individually edit into documents that are edited by a 
community.

>> I also invite Rigo, Wendy, or whomever to draft their own proposal.  If
>> that results in something that I will support and is more likely to gain
>> consensus, I'll retire my draft, most likely with a 410 Gone HTTP status
>> response.
>
> cheers
>
> --
> Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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- Sam Ruby

Received on Friday, 19 December 2014 13:38:15 UTC