Re: Fwd: Call for review: Process 2020

+1 Well done.


On 08/04/2020 22:09, Jeff Jaffe wrote:
> Congratulations to David, Elika, Florian, Wendy, PLH, and everyone else 
> who played a critical role.  Getting to this point was a significant 
> achievement.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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
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> [My apologies, resending fixing reference #8]
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative, Chairs, or member of the public,
> 
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> 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/
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> 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
> 
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> 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].
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> [4] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Process2020
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 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
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> 
> 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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> mailto:coralie@w3.org +337 810 795 22 https://www.w3.org/People/Coralie/
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