- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 20:49:36 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: WHATWG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > The downside of the CG as executed is that it was much less successful > in attracting browser implementor feedback (in part because it was > apparently not advertised in places frequented by browser standards > people). So the implementor feedback only got applied later, and without > full knowledge and understanding of the CGs efforts. It's not useful to > have a standards process that doesn't include all the essential > stakeholders. > This isn't a new suggestion, but worth repeating: starting a CG is fine, but *do not make a new mailing list*. Hold discussions on a related monolithic list (like here or webapps), with a subject line prefix. Making lots of isolated mailing lists only ensures that the people you'd want paying attention won't be, because the overhead of subscribing to a list (for a subject people may only have passive interest in) is much higher than skimming a thread on whatwg or webapps-public that people are already on. Every time I see "we've started a new CG, everyone subscribe to our list!", I cringe; the result here was predictable ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2012Apr/0011.html). -- Glenn Maynard
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