- From: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: 19 Aug 2002 16:40:57 +0200
- To: www-qa@w3.org
- Cc: www-qa-wg@w3.org
[Sorry to send them late, I was on vacations] QA Working Group Teleconference Wednesday, 7-August-2002 -- Scribe: Dominique Hazael-Massieux Attendees: (KD) Karl Dubost (W3C, WG co-chair) (DH) Dominique Hazael-Massieux (W3C - Webmaster) (LH) Lofton Henderson (CGMO - WG co-chair) (DM) David Marston (IBM) (SM) Sandra Martinez (NIST) (JM) Jack Morrison (Sun) (LR) Lynne Rosenthal (NIST - IG co-chair) (MS) Mark Skall (NIST) (AT) Andrew Thackrah (Open Group) Regrets: (dd) Dimitris Dimitriadis (Ontologicon) (KG) Kirill Gavrylyuk (Microsoft) Absent: (PF) Peter Fawcett (RealNetworks) Summary of New Action Items: - AI-20020807-1 DH to add a reminder in the review matrix [1] about public vs member materials - AI-20020807-2 DM to send a proposal to where the profiles should fit in the 1 to 7 list GL 2 of spec GL [2] - AI-20020807-3 KD to begin a liaison with the TAG to see who owns the issue of architectural division of a spec (profile/modules/levels) - AI-20020807-4 KD to ask for publications in TR space in 3 weeks 1. http://www.w3.org/QA/Group/2002/06/reviews 2. http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/08/qaframe-spec-0804.html#Gd-identify-what-conform Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/0048.html Previous Telcon Minutes: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/0049.html Minutes: ---------------- 1. Roll Call See above ---------------- 2. Logistical Topics * F2F Meeting in Tokyo Details given at http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/10/f2f . No new informations. You can book a room in the hotel indicated by Olivier by fax (follow the link in the forementionned page). MS wonders if other hotels are available in the area in case this one would be full. Olivier Thereaux (on IRC) indicates that there are other hotels, but not necessarily as cheap as this one since it's a rather expensive area. * Public/private WG materials The review matrix is kept in Member only space [1]. LH asks to not send finished review to the WG list which is public, since the content of the review is not endorsed by the WG as a whole, and could contain contentious data. DH takes the action item (AI-20020807-1) to put a warning on the page. 1. http://www.w3.org/QA/Group/2002/06/reviews * IG/WG mailing list uage (aka www-qa@w3.org vs www-qa-wg@w3.org) KD sent a mail [3] reminding that technical discussions should happen on the IG mailing list to get a broader audience, and drawing attention on the good way to reply to a mail on the WG list. LH shares this opinion, and DH points that he would like to see the WG list used only for logistical purposes. LH asks if even low level details email should go to the IG list. KD points that low level details can quickly lead to a larger issue on which the IG would be interested and having this kind of mail on the IG list could motivate people to read the documents. Hence, the WG resolves to move technical discussions as much as possible to the IG list. 3. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/0046.html * "Week in QA" [4] Periodicity The last edition of "Week in QA" was on July 15 [5], which means that there should have been a new edition at the beginning of the month for the "2 weeks" period. Provided that there was no much activity during this period and that it would be already one week late, it's decided that the next one will a "4 weeks" period, written by KD. 4. http://www.w3.org/QA/weekinqa 5. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/07/weekinqa-20020715 ---------------- 3. Spec GL [6] Discussion LH would like to have after next week special teleconf in a state good enough to request its publication and ask for public feedback on the new direction of the specification. 6. http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/08/qaframe-spec-0804.html People main concern during last week teleconference was around GL 3, 4 and 7 namely on the confusion between profiles, modules and levels [7]. He tried to avoid suggesting that one relationship was the good way or another one was the bad way. He did the same thing in GL 3, 4 and 7. But in GL 7, he just pointed back to GL 3 and 4 since they were already addressed in these GL. He is now seeking endorsement of this approach DH thinks that we should really indicate if there is a good and a bad way to do that but that's probably not in the scope of the upcoming publication. MS notes that something we may decide we don't want to address because of the big number of cases. Public feedback on this issue seems to be in order. DH suggests pointing to open issues in the SOTD, marking them up differently in the spec so they get more visible and finally listing them in the announcement of the newly published doc to the IG list. Consensus on this approach Resolved: - open issues get more visibility through this - issue on good and bad relationships between dimensions of variability marked as open in the next published draft. 7. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/0029.html [Jack left during this discussion] Going on into the specifics of GL 3, 4 and 7: Nothing special in the general verbiage of GL 3. * In the CP lists, 3.4 (http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/08/qaframe-spec-0804.html#b2ab3d231) <<Minimal requirements on what object(s): a class of products? I.e., does this mean, "For each profile, define the minimal required features/support for each class of product"? Or does it mean to define some profiles-wide minima that are minima for the whole concept of profiles (in which case, it sounds like "rules for profiles">> AT opts for the pro-profile interpretation, wondering if another CP would be necessary for the profile-wide interpretation. LH cites the case of XHTML modularization as an example of this profile-wide requirement. MS and DM sees this more as a module type of issue. LH sums up: there should be a distinction in the concept and that 3.4 should be understood as pro-profile. DH points that the case of XHTML modularization seems a side case, where profiles are the object of the conformance clause, not the subject. LH asks if there should be another class of products for this case (profile). DH points that not having specification in this list makes our own GL not usable with this list.DM thinks that category 1 (foundation or abstract) would fit for it. KD is worried by the weight of the past and wondered if the TAG [8] shouldn't have a look at that to impose consistency on this. DH thinks that this would be the role of our WG, but KD explains that there a more architectural question behind it. 8. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ => AI-20020807-2 DM to send a proposal to where the profiles should fit in the 1 to 7 list GL 2 of spec GL [2] => AI-20020807-3 KD to begin a liaison with the TAG to see who owns the issue of architectural division of a spec (profile/modules/levels) The discussion leads to CP 2.3 http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/08/qaframe-spec-0804.html#Ck-minimal-requirements, with the following marked issue: <<So what? This "core" is not a useful concept for conformance of classes of products, in a profile environment, is it? From a UA conformance perspective for example, what use is it to know that profiles A, B, C all have subset D in common? Okay, it may be an interesting fact, but it tells you nothing that you need to know to verify conformance of the A-conforming UA or the B-conforming UA or the C-conforming UA.>> Agreement that this place should be where to speak about cross-profile min req. Back to GL 3, this resolves the questions pointed by LH. Going on GL 4: In the general verbiage, LH has a couple of specific questions: - examples of levels designed in the 1st edition (most commonly vs always) => most commonly (DOM example given in the ml: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Aug/0015.html) - examples of level 2 defined by a bunch of new modules DH suggests dropping this theoretical-only principle. DM suggests discouraging the approach of building level by modules, since it would lead to confusion between level and profiles: modules are not a just a packaging division, they should have a logical foundation. DH formulates how this kind of grouping modules just look like profiles, and would be a bad usage of levels. Resolved: LH will flag this issue in the next published version LH has a minor question in 4.3: should this be added "The conditions or constraints normally will be tailored according to class of product"? Agreement. Going on GL 7: - <<By definition, level 1 is the minimal requirement with respect to the levels dimension of variability. (@@min reqt on what? i.e., what class, what product?)>> DM thinks that this apply on the scope of what the levels are actually dividing. After some discussions of the various cases of interaction between level and profiles, it is proposed and agreed to drop the sentence, moving the discussion to the email list. CP 7.1 (http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2002/08/qaframe-spec-0804.html#Ck-choose-level-grouping) has reworded in response of KD's comment <<@@Ed Note. Should we also say, "N/A for specifications which predate these guidelines?" I think not: the same could be said about *any* checkpoint.>> gets agreement from the WG. GL 10: Discussion about terminology about "conformance level" DH and LH suggests using "degrees" and referring to the historical use of the word "level" for this pattern. DM notes that this affects our own conformance clause since we're copying the WAI usage of "Level A" conformance. LH indicates that agreement on this topic means changing our conformance clause to "Degree A conformance". MS suggests "1st degree" instead. LH notes that there is a risk of a push back from WAI because of the ambiguity that level A is the minimal whereas 1st degree looks like the best. DM doesn't find any conflicting usage of the word degree doing a search on W3C site, except "degree of confidentiality". MS agrees that moving that way seems clearly justified Resolved: Moving to 1st/2nd/3rd degree in our conformance clause and adapting the verbiage of the relevant CP but reminding the example of usage of the word "level" by WAI and not discouraging it/ ---------------- Adjourning Special telecon next wednesday on spec G Adgenda: remainder of today's agenda and priority of CP list -- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux - http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/ W3C/INRIA mailto:dom@w3.org
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