Re: Snapshots (was: w3process-ISSUE-124)

> should document outstanding issues,
> should provide information about implementations known to the Working Group

I think I've argued in the past against making these MUST rather than should, but perhaps we should reconsider.  Or at a minimum, more strongly encourage adopting something with the WHATWG practice in chair training, best practices documents, Team review criteria for advancing a spec to CR or PR, etc.

As David Singer pointed out, tooling to make it easier for stakeholders to register to be and actually  to be notified when a feature changes or stabilizes would make this less burdensome on W3C editors.  


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From: chaals@yandex-team.ru <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 2:32 AM
To: Brian Kardell; Sam Ruby
Cc: public-w3process@w3.org
Subject: Re: Snapshots (was: w3process-ISSUE-124)

03.10.2014, 20:46, "Brian Kardell" <bkardell@gmail.com>:

> While it is potentially just adding fuel to a fire, I will mention
> that as a developer, I like the idea that WHATWG had with
> implementation status flags on sections and I feel like that helps
> what you're saying Sam.

I don't think this risks adding any fuel to a flame war - i believe there is violent agreement on this everywhere.

The current W3C Process says

[[[
A Public Working Draft is published on the W3C's Technical Reports page [TR] for review, [... and ...]

should document outstanding issues, and parts of the document on which the Working Group does not have consensus, ...
]]]

While this doesn't necessarily mean implementation status implementation contributes significantly to establishing consensus.

and for all advancements in status (this doesn't apply to making a new WD, but that strikes me as a bug we might want to fix)
[[[
should provide information about implementations known to the Working Group.
]]]

The precise details of exactly how to provide the information are probably best left to the Working Group or editors, although some common tools would be helpful.

cheers

Chaals

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