RE: [Section 7.2.2] Draft for Last Call

+1 for both Wayne's and Ralph's changes, provided that it becomes "normally routine" (not normal routine)

Steve Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Swick [mailto:swick@w3.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 6:16 PM
To: Wayne Carr; public-w3process@w3.org
Subject: Re: [Section 7.2.2] Draft for Last Call

One thought in-line ...

On 3/17/2014 7:41 PM, Wayne Carr wrote:
> Suggestions for a few clarifications (not essential - just a few 
> improved wording suggestions).  The chapter looks very good.
> 
...
> 
> 2. Section 7.2.2
> "Because the requirements for First Public Working Drafts are fairly 
> mechanical, approval is normally fairly automatic. For later stages, 
> especially transition to Candidate or Proposed Recommendation, there 
> is generally a formal review meeting to ensure the requirements have 
> been met before Director's approval is given.  Note that for a First 
> Public Working Draft there is no "previous maturity level"."
> 
> Suggest:
> "For a First Public Working Draft there is no "previous maturity 
> level", so many requirements do not apply and approval is normally 
> fairly automatic.  For later stages, especially transition to 
> Candidate or Proposed Recommendation, there is generally a formal 
> review meeting to ensure the requirements have been met before Director's approval is given.
> 
> Reason: In the current text, it isn't clear why the requirements are 
> "mechanical".  It's because most of them are about documenting things 
> that happened since a previous maturity level so they don't apply.
> Theproposed  changes combines wording from the two sentences about 
> FPWD and moves them together.  I think that's clearer.

I like your suggested reordering of the text.  If your proposal carries, one further tweak to your text that I'd like is:

  "... and approval is normal /-fairly automatic-//+routine+/."

Rational: the Director may look at what the Status of This Document says and ask the Working Group for some clarifications.  The approval of the shortname is not always "automatic".

-Ralph

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