Re: Items not listed as "new" in the draft charter

On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:

> On Mar 23, 2010, at 06:39 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>> Indexed Database API
>>>> Programmable HTTP Caching and Serving
>>>> Uniform Messaging Policy
>>>> Selectors API Level 2
>>>> Widgets Access Request Policy
>>>> Widgets URI Scheme
>>>> Widgets View Mode
>>
>> I tried to omit items that I knew to be renames or splits of a  
>> draft in the old charter. I may have missed some, especially in the  
>> case of Widgets where I'm not up to speed on what is in the specs.  
>> I believe at least the first three were written from scratch  
>> without incorporating text from any previous draft.
>
> WARP is a split from P+C, its ancestor is in the first draft.

Sounds fine to document it that way, since the precursor is not clear  
from backtracking through "previous version" links of WARP.

> The Widget URI scheme was initially intended for P+C (as can be seen  
> from the TBD section in older drafts) but the content wasn't written  
> up before it was branched.

That sounds like a new document to me. But either way, documenting its  
origin would be fine.

> View modes  were also in the 2008 P+C draft, but either way they  
> probably shouldn't be listed as a widget deliverable considering  
> that they can be used in even broader contexts (as requested by the  
> CSS WG).

Maybe it should be renamed to not include "Widgets" in the title, and  
not be identified as a Widgets deliverable. That would be fine by me.

> Essentially there is nothing new in widgets, the plan is simply to  
> finish the existing ongoing work quickly.

There is at least the new "Widget Embedding" item in the charter  
(which is indicated as a new item).

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Tuesday, 23 March 2010 09:51:24 UTC