Re: Process CG process question - was RE: Agenda Process Document Task Force Tuesday, 2 June 2015

On 6/1/2015 8:34 PM, Wayne Carr wrote:
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> On 2015-06-01 12:28, Jeff Jaffe wrote:
>> I think we have a larger issue than just the scheduling of the 
>> meetings.  We have not gotten engagement that all of the changes we 
>> are proposing are worth doing.
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>> We just completed a ballot for Process2015.  19 AC Members favored 
>> the changes and there were 4 Formal Objections.  Well over 300 AC 
>> Members chose not to vote.  There is an AB call in two weeks, and the 
>> AB will need to decide how to proceed.  Given the tiny participation 
>> and the quantity of objections it is not obvious that there is 
>> sufficient consensus to move forward.
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> Since the formal objections are all on one change that isn't related 
> to the other changes, removing that change and reverting to the old 
> text would be an option.

Indeed, that was one of the three options that I thought should be 
proposed to the AB.

The other two options which also have some logic (imho) are:

1. Conclude that there is no groundswell of support to change the 
process.  This viewpoint assumes that changing the process deserves a 
higher degree of support from the membership than a mere charter 
approval.  We had 70 AC reps in a room in Paris and less than one-third 
took the small number of seconds to express an opinion.

2. Ask the Director for his advice on the formal objection.  The process 
task force struggled with the TAG/AB vote issue and reached a viewpoint 
of what would find the greatest consensus.  When a formal objection was 
expressed in the March review, the task force Chair looked for consensus 
between the objector and the task force recommendation and was unable to 
find one.  Given all of that, it is possible that any change in TAG/AB 
would always have some objections.  Yet, we should not be in the 
gridlock situation where we would never change the vote procedure just 
because there are a small number of objections.

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> The one change that seems most useful, being able to quickly make 
> editorial changes apparently was accidentally left out of what was put 
> to AC Review - but it looks like the change to the definition of 
> editorial changes that was needed to make that other change did make 
> it in.  It would be nice if broken links, typos and errors in examples 
> could be quickly fixed.
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> One possibility would be to add that change in that was accidentally 
> left out.  remove the change that have the 4 formal objections and 
> quickly do another AC review - not another last call - pointing out 
> what changed.
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>> To those of us who are active in this activity, we need to work hard 
>> to make sure that we are making changes that are valued by the 
>> constituency.
>>
>> Jeff
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>> On 6/1/2015 3:22 PM, Michael Champion (MS OPEN TECH) wrote:
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>>> There has been pretty limited participation on this call for the 
>>> last few months, which is at 7am Pacific and late evening in East 
>>> Asia.  Is it time to consider a more “asynchronous decision making” 
>>> mode for this CG?
>>>
>>> *From:* Stephen Zilles [mailto:szilles@adobe.com]
>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 1, 2015 11:55 AM
>>> *To:* public-w3process@w3.org
>>> *Subject:* Agenda Process Document Task Force Tuesday, 2 June 2015
>>>
>>> The call is on Tuesday, 2 June, 2015 at 14:00-15:00 UTC 
>>> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=08&day=26&year=2014&hour=14&min=00&sec=0&p1=0>(10:00am-11:00am 
>>> Boston local)
>>> Zakim Bridge+1.617.761.6200 <tel:+1.617.761.6200>, conference code 
>>> 7762 ("PROC")
>>> IRC Channel: #w3process
>>>
>>> For residents of other (typical) time zones the start times were:
>>>
>>> Pacific:  7:00
>>>
>>> Eastern US: 10:00
>>>
>>> Central Europe: 15:00
>>>
>>> Japan: 23:00
>>>
>>> The purpose of these meetings has been to agree on the resolution of 
>>> open issues, close them where possible or assign actions to move 
>>> toward closure.
>>>
>>> Agenda:
>>>
>>> 1.Review Open Action Items
>>> https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/actions/open
>>>
>>> 2.Review results of AC Review on Proposed Process 2015
>>>
>>> 3.Review Open and Raised Issues relevant to Process 2016
>>> List of such to be sent in separate message
>>>
>>> 4.Review other Open and Raised Issues
>>> http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/
>>>
>>> 5.Any Other Business
>>>
>>> Steve Zilles
>>>
>>> Chair, Process Document Task Force
>>>
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