Re: attention -- WG approval of 1.0 strategy

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:14 +0200, Thierry Michel wrote:
> Chris Lilley wrote:
> > On Friday, September 21, 2007, 4:42:16 PM, Ian wrote:
> > 
> > IBJ> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:35 +0000, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
> >>>> I could not find anywhere in our W3C process or guidelines, mentioning 
> >>>> this "non-normative" on the errata page.
> > 
> > IBJ> Just to follow up on this point, in our Manual of style [1],
> > IBJ> see the section on "entries on an errata page".
> > 
> > And the process document says:
> > 
> > 7.6.1 Errata Management
> > 
> >   A correction is first "proposed" by the Working Group. A correction
> >   becomes normative -- of equal status as the text in the published
> >   Recommendation -- through one of the processes described below. An
> >   errata page MAY include both proposed and normative corrections. The
> >   Working Group MUST clearly identify which corrections are proposed
> >   and which are normative.
> >   http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/tr.html#errata
> 
> 
> Yes I read that in the process document. But it is largelly not done by WGs.

Right, this is unfortunate and I hope that by talking with people at a
Chairs meeting we can spread better practice.

> > 
> > This is why the SVG 1.1 errata have "proposed" and "draft" errata but
> > no "normative" errata.
> > http://www.w3.org/2003/01/REC-SVG11-20030114-errata
> 
> Does that mean "proposed" are resolved by the WG and "draft" errata are 
> not ?
>


> Why don't you have "normative" ? The Wg has chosen not to go through the 
> process of making them normative ?

Correct. "Normative" in this context means "Has gone through a W3C
Process." The rest of the text has been subject to review and a decision
by the Director; the goal is for the changes that fix errata to be
through a similar process (though shorter).

 _ Ian

> 
> We usually have the WG resolved errata on the public page and we track 
> errata on anothet Group page. Once the Group errata page are resolved, 
> they are moved to the public page.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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