Suggested and Adopted updates to the Dec 11 Process Document Draft

>From the Dec 16th TF Discussion minutes
  http://www.w3.org/2013/12/16-w3process-minutes.html

1.       Add a paragraph at the very beginning of Chapter 7 (non-normative) that gives an short overview of the steps to recommendation. E.g.

This chapter describes the steps to publishing and maintaining a W3C Recommendation. Work begins with a First Public Working Draft and continues with subsequent public Working Drafts each of which adds to, modifies and completes the scope of work envisioned for the specification that is under development. When this work is declared complete and has been given Wide Review, a Candidate Recommendation is issued to complete Implementation Experience. When that is complete and with the approval of the W3C Advisory Committee a W3C Recommendation is published.



2.       Merge the "Classes of Changes to a Recommendation" with "Substantive Change" per Ian Jacobs suggestions for the wording in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Jan/0004.html

where Ian proposes the following for the four classes:

1. No changes to text content

2. Changes that do not affect conformance

3. Changes that affect conformance but do not add new features

     [Note: I've added "that affect conformance" to make 3. more clearly mutually exclusive of 2.]

4. New features

(I would say "conformance and implementations" rather than just "conformance")
Then, a "substantive change" is just a class 3 or 4 change.


3.       The section "Ending work on a Technical Report" disappeared. It was nice to see that there were two options; Rescind and Note.  Though it's implied in 7.7 and 7.8, Fantasai thinks it was better to have it be explicit.  The key concern was making sure that a "dead or dormant" specification is not left as a WB which implies future work, but is republished as a Note that indicates expectations, such as "work was abandon due to lack of interest or resources".

>From the Jan 6th TF discussion:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Jan/0007.html

4.       The Candidate Recommendation Maturity Level begins the AC Review process, but section 7.4 does not currently say this. There should be a statement to this effect following the paragraph that begins, 'A Candidate Recommendation corresponds to a "Last Call Working Draft"'.


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