More updates for f2f

Hello folks,

* Spec edits / actions

After checking in Vlad's edits, I completed ACTION-131 by copying over
from WOFF 1.0 the relevant testable assertions for the metadata block.
http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF2/spec/#Metadata
That action is now in pending review state.

Two other actions (actually completed some months ago) were moved to pending review

ACTION-125  Reach out on patent for brotli
ACTION-128  Report on svg binaryxml as a preprocessing step

* Test plan

For WOFF 1.0, we had a wiki page for the user agent, file format and
authoring tool assertions while we developed tests.

https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan-UserAgent
https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan-Format
https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan-AuthoringTool

I have started similar pages for WOFF 2.0, extracting the testable
assertions out and for a few of them, adding suggestions on how they
could be tested. Anyone in the WG can edit the wiki.

https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan20-UserAgent
https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan20-Format
https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/wiki/TestPlan20-AuthoringTool

I volunteer to lead the test effort. I hope we can re-use a lot of the
TTX-based Python framework that Tal Leming made for WOFF 1.0. I
suggest that the user agent tests use the same test harness and
automatic result gathering/report generating framework that the CSS WG
uses; our test metadata is the same as theirs.

* Agenda+ Process change

The W3C process recently changed, the procedure for Last Call and
Candidate Rec has been moved to a single stage. I'd like to briefly
outline the changes and then we can decide as a group whether to
continue to use the old process (which we can for up to the next two
years, if desired) or the new one for WOFF 2.0.

* Agenda+ Going to Last Call

As an outcome for the Barcelona meeting, I would like to either have a
minuted decision to go to Last Call, or else a detailed plan for what
exactly needs to be fixed before we can go to Last Call. Either way we
should publish the Editors Draft to /TR as there have been important
changes since the last publication.

Besides asking for wider review (which we have to track, respond to,
and document), that step also triggers a patent exclusion period, and
also means we should submit the Internet Media type to IANA for
registration.

* Agenda+ Brotli Internet Draft

Draft-01 expires November 16, 2014. It needs to be refreshed before
then (and ideally, updated). It would be good to discuss next steps
for wider review, which is a prerequisite for moving from Internet
Draft to Informational RFC. Showing that there is more than one
implementation is part of that.


-- 
Best regards,
 Chris                          mailto:chris@w3.org

Received on Sunday, 14 September 2014 23:17:19 UTC