- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 07:48:18 -0600
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Philippe Le Hégaret <plh@w3.org>, Michael Smith <mike@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
The question is one of veracity. Does the HTMLWG have: "two very private lists, where all the decisions about what actually gets merged into the spec appear to take place."? Sam, is that statement: True or false? Pick one. Laura On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > On 12/03/2012 05:00 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote: >> >> >> Hi Chairs, >> >> The following statement was made recently [1]: >> >> "HTMLWG has two very private lists, where all the decisions about what >> actually gets merged into the spec appear to take place." >> >> If this is the case, it appears to be very troubling state of affairs. >> >> I would appreciate it if the veracity of this statement was confirmed by >> the Chairs. > > > Editors, like yourself, make the initial determination as to what goes into > specifications. The chairs ensure that there is ample opportunity for the > Working Group to review, comment on, influence, and ultimately overturn > editor resolutions when necessary. > > If you know of any instance where editors have somehow avoided this, please > let the chairs know of specifics, and we will investigate. Here is a > history of revert requests: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/revert-requests.html > > Here are the processes we are following for extension specifications: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v3.html#cr > > To date, no extension specification has been nominated for inclusion. > > And here is the process that we will hopefully shortly be following for CR: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v3.html#cr > > - Sam Ruby > > >> [1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20121201#l-144 >> >> -- >> with regards >> >> Steve Faulkner >> Technical Director - TPG >> >> www.paciellogroup.com <http://www.paciellogroup.com> | >> www.HTML5accessibility.com <http://www.HTML5accessibility.com> | >> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner <http://www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner> >> >> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - >> dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ <http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/> >> >> Web Accessibility Toolbar - >> www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html >> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html> > > > -- Laura L. Carlson
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