Re: Comment tracking for navigation-timing CR [Was: Re: publishing new WD of URL spec]

Jeff wrote:
> So the process issue that we should work on is:

> How to motivate the W3C Community and WGs to expeditiously and 
> consistently issue errata? ‎

Presumably it would involve decreasing the overhead. Currently an Edited REC has to go through the full REC process - including an AC review. 

The Director should be able to determine whether an errata substantially changes the IP surface of a publication and if not, allow the AC review to be skipped. 

<quote>
‎7.7.2 Revising a Recommendation
A Working group may request republication of a Recommendation, or W3C may republish a Recommendation, to make corrections that do not result in any changes to the text of the specification.
Editorial changes to a Recommendation require no technical review of the proposed changes. A Working Group may request publication of a Proposed Recommendation  or W3C may publish a Proposed Recommendation to make this class of change without passing through earlier maturity levels. Such publications are may be called a Proposed Edited Recommendation.
To make corrections to a Recommendation that produce substantive changes but do not add new features, a Working Group may request publication of a Candidate Recommendation, without passing through earlier maturity levels.
In the latter two cases, the resulting Recommendation may be called an Edited Recommendation.
When requesting the publication of an edited Recommendation as described in this section, in addition to meeting the requirements for the relevant maturity level, a Working Group
must show that the changes to the document have received wide review, and
should address all recorded errata.
For changes which introduces a new feature or features, W3C must follow the full process of advancing a technical report to Recommendation beginning with a new First Public Working Draft.
</quote>

I think in Boris's example, adding a stringifier is technically a new feature and thus ‎hits the painful edge of the paragraph.

Received on Friday, 12 September 2014 13:09:34 UTC