Re: Hello & a proposal

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:

> Hi Ashley,
>
> On July 22, 2015 at 12:47:49 PM, Ashley Gullen (ashley@scirra.com) wrote:
> > Hello WICG. This sounds like an interesting idea. I'm new to writing
> specs
> > and this sounds like a useful place to participate.
> >
> > I wanted to bring up a small spec I drafted up recently:
> > https://www.scirra.com/labs/specs/imagedata-conversion-extensions.html
>
> This already looks like a great start. Nice work.
>

+1 :)


>
> > I posted it to public-webapps, there was some discussion and feedback, I
> > incorporated the feedback in to the spec, and then eventually discussion
> > died off.
>
> Ok, let's gather those links so we can see what feedback you got. Please
> post links to emails here so we can review them together.
>
> > I really need the features proposed in that spec, but I'm not really
> > familiar with the spec process and I don't really know what to do next.
>
> Let's start with the above. We need you to articulate why you need it, why
> other sites need it (maybe even which ones), and if possible we need to
> show what various sites are already doing.
>

One thing that need emphasis is when do you need the image conversion to
run. Is it a low priority task? Do you want to perform it in a worker?
Should the browser treat it as something that mustn't occupy the UI thread?


>
> Here is a bit more detail about the process:
> https://github.com/WICG/admin#contributing-new-proposals
>
> > Should I hassle implementors? Should I wait and see?
>
> Implementers are all here - no need to hassle anyone (hi from Mozilla!) :)
>

While that's true as far as representation is concerned, once this is
ready, we'd probably want to grab the right people by the ear and get them
to review it :)


>
> > Has everyone just
> > forgotten about it? What's next? Any advice or guidance on where to go
> next
> > with my spec draft would be appreciated.
>
> We will help you pitch it. The document is missing the use cases, etc.
> Let's start by seeing what feedback you got already from public-webapps,
> then we can start bouncing it around a bit more.
>

I'd say that it'd also be good to move this work to a public repo. It can
be under your org, or under the wicg's, but it'd make it easier for more
people to comment, open issues, etc.