Re: Call for Consensus (in email) on closing out process 2019, ONE WEEK POLL closing NOV 15th

On 08/11/2018, 17:04, "singer@apple.com on behalf of David Singer"
<singer@apple.com> wrote:

>Folks
>
>Jeff has gently reminded me that I should have held the process call by
>now, in order to get Process 2019 to vote by the AC (and review by the AB
>and team). So, since we didnıt have a call this week (mea culpa)Š
>
>This is a formal Call for Consensus on 4 questions below. Please respond
>within 7 days, i.e. by 9am Pacific  on the 15th November.  These need to
>be binary yes/no or approve/reject responses, please.
>
>Earlier responses are gratefully received.  Specific concerns, even
>editorial ones, should be noted in GitHub. (But if you respond to any of
>these with No, I expect to find somewhere the substantiation of that no,
>probably as a comment on the Pull Request or filing of a New Issue).
>
>There are four roughly independent questions. We have a current draft,
>and, I believe that there are 3 Pull Requests that are uncontroversial,
>and good to incorporate this year. For all of them, if there is any
>significant objection, I think they can be safely deferred. The other
>Pull Requests seem to need more work.
>
>Looking at the remaining Issues, I believe that there are no issues that
>donıt have Pull Requests that are mature enough and urgent enough to
>address.
>
>The four questions:
>
>1) The existing document at GitHub <https://w3c.github.io/w3process/>
>represents changes that we had consensus to incorporate. However, we have
>not established consensus that the resulting document should be sent
>ahead.  A diff with the current process (including, at the end, a summary
>of changes) can be seen by using the W3C Diff Service
><https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2018%2FP
>rocess-20180201%2F&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fw3process%2F>
>
>Do we have consensus to send at least the current draft
><https://w3c.github.io/w3process/> on to the AB, W3M, and then AC for
>approval?

+1

Even if the number of changes is small, it's better to publish smaller
incremental improvements than "save up" for something more significant,
which might be harder for folk to process.

>
>
>2) Pull Request: Sets the size of the AB to 9­11
>https://github.com/w3c/w3process/pull/224
>
>The current process enlarges the AB from 9 to 11, a size that might be
>difficult to fill all the time. This softens that change, saying ³at
>least 9 and no more than 11², and defines how the elections and so on run
>to manage that. While weıre in this area, itıs convenient to land this at
>the same time.
>
>Do we have consensus to incorporate PR 224?

0 I'm not sure I understand the issues enough to comment on this.

>
>3) Pull Request: Clarify what the expectations are for advancing to CR
>https://github.com/w3c/w3process/pull/214
>
>The phrase "Candidate Recommendations are expected to be acceptable as
>Recommendations² in the existing process has been found in practice to be
>confusing and even ambiguous. This pull request tries to clarify that.
>
>Do we have consensus to incorporate PR 214?

+1, either (by preference) as currently proposed or in the alternative
form Ralph suggested of removing the note altogether.

>
>4) Pull Request: Clarify maturity requirements for TR updates at the same
>maturity https://github.com/w3c/w3process/pull/215
>
>This is based on, and depends on, 214, which is expected to be merged
>first.
>
>This clarifies that if you update a document already in, say, CR, then
>the update should meet the CR entry criteria; EXCEPT in the case where
>you find multiple flaws in a CR, you can update to fix only some of them
>(even though normally you wouldnıt normally be allowed to enter CR with
>known flaws), as thatıs an improvement.
>
>Do we have consensus to incorporate PR 215?

+1 to the clarification that updating a CR to improve it should be
possible even if further improvements might still be possible.

Nigel

>
>
>
>David Singer
>Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
>



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