Given the call for comments [1] on the Process 2016, I wanted to
re-raise an issue that has been raised here before:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Oct/0143.html
in the hopes that it could be addressed in Process 2016.
This was a regression in Process 2014 (links to relevant changeset
and issue are in the email above) that changed the process to
require that typo fixes or other _Editorial changes_ to W3C
Recommendations go through Proposed Recommendation or Proposed
Edited Recommendation rather than just being able to be published.
It would be good to revert to the 2005 state in which working groups
can make editorial changes to recommendations without going through
PR and an AC vote to do so.
-David
[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2016JulSep/0016.html
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Forwarded message 1
We have 4 classes of changes:
1. Formatting
2. Editorial (no potential effects on conformance)
3. Substantive (may affect conformance) but not new features
4. New features
In the 2005 Process, class 1 & 2 changes could be made to a REC by
merely republishing it (as REC). In the 2014 Process, class 2
editorial changes require cycling through PR.
Compare:
Old - http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#rec-modify
New - http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#revised-rec
Here is the changeset that made this change:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/rev/fd1d11321989
Here is the issue cited in the changeset log:
http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/95
According to the issue, the changes were supposedly editorial, and
there was no discussion of the justification for or impact of adding
this extra PR cycle.
Since I don't see any reason to make this more complicated than it
was in the 2014 Process, I would like to see this change reverted.
~fantasai