- From: bergi <bergi@axolotlfarm.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:29:48 +0200
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-webid@w3.org, Read-Write-Web <public-rww@w3.org>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Am 10.08.21 um 07:29 schrieb Henry Story: >> On 10. Aug 2021, at 00:52, bergi <bergi@axolotlfarm.org> wrote: >> >> Am 09.08.21 um 18:32 schrieb Henry Story: >>>> On 9. Aug 2021, at 17:34, bergi <bergi@axolotlfarm.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 27.07.21 um 20:07 schrieb Melvin Carvalho: >>>>> I'm hearing that you dont have time/resources to take WebID >>>>> any further So, would you step down as chair of the the WebID >>>>> community group at let others, perhaps a community effort, to >>>>> modernize it >>>> >>>> I strongly support that. Not leaving any comment on a proposal >>>> like that is even more an argument to look for another chair >>>> who can contribute more time for the group. > > Btw. what is the proposal that is being talked about? The proposal is that you step down as a chair. >>> The place for these discussions in on the WebID mailing list. >> >> I guess all people who are still interested in WebID are also on >> the RWW mailing list, but I added the WebID mailing list to this >> thread for the sake of completeness. > > I don’t have time to follow the discussions on the rww mailing list > in detail, and what I see of discussions there, I don’t find to be > very productive. Recently they seem to have been very aggressive > too, a bit like this call to remove me as chair, suddenly, like 10 > years after the group has pretty much been quiet. If you communicate that you can not spend much time on your chair position, it's just a logical conclusion to allow someone else to take that role. >> >>> Someone left some detailed improvements to the spec a few months >>> ago. You are welcome to make a PR using that on >>> https://github.com/w3c/webid and I will be happy to review that. >> >> A chair has more/different responsibilities than reviewing PRs. > > There is no requirement for groups to go on forever either, and keep > discussing issues when there is nothing to discuss. In fact *all* > groups that are productive have time limits. The members may decide to turn it into a living standard. That's not a decision a chair can make on its own. > and that is why we opened a github repository to make just such > changes. You can even leave issues there. It's not about what I want to change. It's about why should one contribute to the WebID group if: - the chair has no time to fulfill the role as chair - the chair claims there is nothing to do
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