- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:00:37 -0400
- To: "'www-archive'" <www-archive@w3.org>
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Can a CR be published as a PR if one of its Normative references is a CR? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:35:00 +0200 From: ext Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> To: Barstow Art (Nokia-CIC/Boston) <Art.Barstow@nokia.com> CC: team-webapps, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, w3c-archive On 23 Jun 2010, at 11:35 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > Hi All, > > My understanding is that after a CR passes all of its exit criteria, > it could be published as a PR if all of the CRs normative > dependencies were at least CRs. This PR would then be parked in PR > until every dependency was at least at PR. > > The specific case that led to my understanding is the MWBP spec that > was published as a PR on 2-Nov-2006 but did not advance to REC until > 29-Jul-2008, while the MWBP PR waited for XHTML Basic 1.1 to advance. > > However, based on some recent discussions, where the context is the > Widget Packaging and Configuration CR, my understanding may be > wrong, i.e. this CR shall not be published as a PR until all of its > normative references are also at least PR. > > Would some please clarify this? Let me know if this helps: Q. Can my spec advance to REC if I have normative refs to drafts? A. There is no absolute rule here. The WG makes a proposal (via the spec) that the community reviews as part of the Rec track. Our transition process has a reporting requirement, so the Director is aware of references to unstable material. See http://www.w3.org/Guide/transitions for more information. Other notes: * It is nonetheless considered "unwise" to refer to unstable material. So we recommend against it. * There are differing opinions on whether we should publish PRs and park them while references mature. Recently (with CSS3 selectors [1]) we made a decision to leave the thing at PR while references mature BUT we also told the community that the spec was "Approved" as a Rec but delayed [2]. The spec sets a similar expectation. _ Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-css3-selectors-20091215/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2010AprJun/0014.html -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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