- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 12:26:31 +0900
- To: "ab@w3.org" <ab@w3.org>, W3C Process Community Group <public-w3process@w3.org>, TAG List <tag@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <6734093c-2d99-4948-8155-e73d362ef936@rivoal.net>
Hi AB, TAG, and Process CG, Given that on the one hand, most of the current Process draft is pretty stable and probably ready for wide review, but on the other hand, that the set of issues and edits related to removal and recall of the AB or TAG continue to be the subject of significant discussion and iteration, I have just taken steps to help isolate that discussion from the rest of the draft. Specifically: * I have backed out from the Editor's draft's main branch all the edits related to TAG/AB removal/recall that had already been landed. They no longer appear in https://www.w3.org/policies/process/drafts/ * I have created a "ab-tag-discipline" topic branch, whose built preview can be seen at https://www.w3.org/policies/process/drafts/ab-tag-discipline, with those commits reinstated. The branch is documented from the repo's README <https://github.com/w3c/process#user-content-branches-under-development>, so that you can find it later without referring to this mail. * I have added a "Topic: AB/TAG discipline <https://github.com/w3c/process/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22Topic%3A%20AB%2FTAG%20discipline%22%20>" label to all Process CG issues and PRs, open or closed, that are about this discussion * I have adjusted the pending PRs on this topic to be targeting the "ab-tag-discipline" branch, rather than the main branch I believe that with this in place, we can both: * start the wide review of the rest of the Process, without concern that people reviewing would be upset or confused by this work-in-progress. I would appreciate AB confirmation that we can indeed start. * continue to iterate on this topic, in an isolated space, where we can land incremental improvements into a dedicated draft for easy review, while being clear that we're not yet committed to it, and can chose to keep iterating, or to give up on it, without affecting the main draft until we decide to adopt the whole thing. I've taken the liberty to do that as Process Editor, because I thought this would bring some clarity and peace to the state of our discussions, and that it would be easier to do it and tell you about it, rather than try to explain what it would look like and ask for permission. If the Process CG chairs or the AB think I was wrong to do so, I can easily revert things back to where they were. —Florian
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