Fwd: Call for review: Process 2020

Congratulations to David, Elika, Florian, Wendy, PLH, and everyone else 
who played a critical role.  Getting to this point was a significant 
achievement.

Jeff

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Subject: 	Call for review: Process 2020
Resent-Date: 	Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:31:51 +0000
Resent-From: 	w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Date: 	Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:31:42 +0200
From: 	Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
To: 	W3C Members <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>, Chairs <chairs@w3.org>
CC: 	public-w3process@w3.org



[My apologies, resending fixing reference #8]

Dear Advisory Committee Representative, Chairs, or member of the public,


The W3C Advisory Board, supported by W3C management, is forwarding a 
proposed Process 2020 draft [1] to the Advisory Committee for 
consideration, and requests comments ASAP and by *31 May 2020*.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/w3process/


The major changes in this document are outlined in the changes section 
[2], together with a complete diff from Process 2019 to this Process 
2020 proposal, as well as partial diffs to help review the changes 
smaller and more digestible chunks [3]

[2] https://w3c.github.io/w3process/#changes-2019
[3] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Process2020#Process_Document_Edits


This is a significant update to our Process, and deserves careful review.
It introduces enhancements to the REC track to allow easier updating of 
RECs and CRs, to strengthen the patent policy, and to provide a Living 
Standards capability as a native capability of the W3C Recommendation 
Track, while maintaining the same review and quality requirements that 
it currently possesses. There is an in depth explainer about the changes 
affecting the Recommendation track [4].

[4] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Process2020


This message initiates a comment period.
While the period closes on 31 May 2020, overlapping our upcoming Virtual 
Advisory Committee Meeting, we nonetheless request you comment as soon 
as possible (to facilitate discussion and response preparation).

After the comment period the W3C Process CG and the AB will finalize a 
revision, which we anticipate sending for formal AC review and approval 
in June.


As part of our Virtual AC meeting [5], we will have a recorded summary 
of Process 2020 and the associated changes in the Patent Policy posted, 
with an associated 90-minute Q&A session to discuss this process revision.

[5] https://www.w3.org/2020/05/AC/Overview.html

The (geographically distributed) editors of the Process document, 
Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> and Elika Etemad 
<fantasai@inkedblade.net>, have also offered to answer questions and are 
willing to schedule calls (in any timezone) with anyone who would feel 
that their questions or concerns would be easier to communicate through 
synchronous discussion. (Florian in particular is also fluent in both 
French and Japanese, if those languages are more comfortable.)


Specific comments on this revision of the Process are best filed as 
Github issues, or even pull requests, at the Process CG github site [6].
[6] https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues

More general discussion and comments should be sent to 
public-w3process@w3.org [7] or to process-issues@w3.org (Member-only 
archive).
[7] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/

(You may discuss your comments on any other list, such as 
w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (member-only), as long as you send the comments to 
one of the W3process lists above and copy that list in the discussion.)


This revision of the process has important implications for the W3C 
Patent Policy, for which there is a companion update being worked on in 
the Patents and Standards Interest Group (PSIG), which is also under 
review [8].
[8] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2020AprJun/0006.html

Note also that the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is 
normatively referenced from our process, and it too has a revision under 
review [9] since March 12.
[9] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2020JanMar/0034.html


The Advisory Board handles Process evolution 'in the open', in the 
Process Community Group [10], and we encourage members of the community 
to join to help shepherd process evolution.

[10] https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/


Thank you for your careful scrutiny of this important update.


For Jeff Jaffe, Chair, W3C Advisory Board,
David Singer, Chair, W3C Process Community Group, Elika Etemad, Editor, 
W3C Process Document,
Florian Rivoal, Editor, W3C Process Document;
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

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