Re: Draft [transition-request] PR for the W3C Process Document (revised)

On 5/1/2014 12:12 AM, Stephen Zilles wrote:
> All,
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> The Advisory Board and its Process Document Task Force would like to
> request the transition to PR of
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>     Title
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>         World Wide Web Consortium Process Document
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>     URL
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>         http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/
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>     Editors' draft
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>         https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/default/cover.html

We should snapshot this to someplace else for the AC review.

I propose www.w3.org/2014/05/Process-20140506

I am happy to help make that happen.

And somewhat contrary to our practice for Technical Reports I propose
that we not change the version at /Consortium/Process until a new
Process has been adopted.

-Ralph


>     Proposed publication date: Tuesday, 6 May 2014
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>     Abstract
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> The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead the World
> Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that
> promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. The W3C Process
> Document describes the organizational structure of the W3C and the
> processes related to the responsibilities and functions they exercise to
> enable W3C to accomplish its mission. This document does not describe
> the internal workings of the Team or W3C's public communication mechanisms.
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> For more information about the W3C mission and the history of W3C,
> please refer to About W3C <http://www.w3.org/Consortium/> [PUB15].
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> Record of the decision to request the transition
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> WBS Ballot: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/7756/ProcessDoc/results
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> Report of important changes to the document
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> There has been some editorial clarification, but no significant changes
> were made since the Last Call. See
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/rev/41f97f342b7d for details of these changes.
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> The major changes made to Chapter 7 since the 2005 version of the Process Document are listed in the Status Section of the (revised) document: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/default/cover.html#status .
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> Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements
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> Almost three years ago, the Advisory Board began looking for ways to make
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> specification development more agile. In the November 2012 TPAC Meeting,
> the Advisory Board realized that some of the major issues related to
> agility were in the complexity of Last Call, Candidate Recommendation
> and Proposed Recommendation. Because these are completely specified in
> Chapter 7 of the current W3C Process, we have focused on the
> requirements that can be addressed in a modified Chapter 7. The
> remaining process issues (those not directly related to Chapter 7) have
> been tabled until a future revision of the W3C Process.
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> Evidence that dependencies with other groups met
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> There are no recorded dependencies with other groups.
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> Evidence that the document has received wide review
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> This was the second Last Call. The previous one had over 75 comments whose resolution is documented in http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues 
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> (those with Document Life Cycle (ch 7) as the "Product")
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> Evidence that issues have been formally addressed
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> There were no comments received on the final Last Call document, but
> during the Last Call period, there were comments received on a prior
> version of the document. These comments have been addressed or issues
> (deferred to a future update to the Process Document) have been raised.
> See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Apr/0034.html .
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> Objections
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> There were no objections.
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> Implementation information
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> The implementation plan is described at the end of the message
> announcing the final Last Call:
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2014JanMar/0138.html
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> Patent disclosures
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> Patents are not relevant to this document.
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> Steve Zilles
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> Chair, AB Process Document Task Force
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Received on Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:12:57 UTC