Re: DRAFT Agenda (Homework needed!!) for the Process Call 12 May 2021 7am Pacific Time

> On 11May, 2021, at 12:47 , fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
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> On 5/11/21 1:25 AM, Jeff Jaffe wrote:
>> On 5/10/2021 5:47 PM, David Singer wrote:
>>> 3.2) Editor report: what’s holding us back from sending to the AB so they can send it to the team and the AC?
>> Before we send this to the AB for review, I recommend two steps first.
>> 1. The Editors provide a customized diff, so the Process CG can have a CfC about P2021.
>> Here is what I mean by a customized diff.  Due to the reorganized structure, I suspect that an ordinary diff which simply show that everything changed and would be unusable.  A customized diff would be an actual diff for those sections where the content actually changed.  But for those sections that merely moved large blocks of text from one section number heading to another, the customized diff only shows that the section numbers changed, rather than showing that the text changed.
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> I think we might actually want to forward the Process to the AB *before* merging the editorial reorg. Sure we'll need a customized diff document to present to the AC, but it takes a lot of time to produce that, and I don't want to hold up the AB's substantive review of the Process for it.
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> We can invite anyone in the AB who's interested in being involved in the editorial reorg to participate in the Process CG's review of it, which we can conduct in parallel with the AB's substantive review of the non-editorial-reorg changes. I suspect most will defer to the Process CG on this editorial matter, though.

Yes, the timing of the re-org is tricky. Once it’s done, we’re undiffable.


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>> 2. We conduct a CfC in the Process CG.
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> Sure.

yes


Dave Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple

singer@apple.com

Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:44:34 UTC