Re: Exit criteria in the wake of 3 engines

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Paul Irish wrote:
> In exit criteria for many of the specs we see text like: "each implementation must be developed by a different party and cannot share, reuse, or derive from code used by another qualifying implementation"
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> With Opera adopting Chromium, this criterium appears to have gotten significantly more challenging to satisfy.
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> There were 6 two-implementation possibilities with Presto and without, that number is reduced to 3. 
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> Is revisiting the exit criteria worthwhile now that it seems far more difficult to move a spec to Rec? 
I would suggest a wait and see approach. Let's look a whether this starts being a problem (and actually slowing down things) before wasting cycles discussing process. We should definitely keep an eye out for it, though.

--tobie

Received on Wednesday, 6 March 2013 09:21:04 UTC