13:01:31 RRSAgent has joined #wam 13:01:32 logging to http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc 13:01:44 ScribeNick: ArtB 13:01:47 Scribe: Art 13:01:49 Chair: Art 13:01:56 Meeting: Widgets Voice Conference 13:02:00 Date: 9 July 2009 13:02:15 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/0144.html 13:02:20 Regrets: Marcin 13:02:27 zakim, who's here? 13:02:27 On the phone I see Josh_Soref, ArtB, darobin (muted) 13:02:28 On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, hsivonen, MikeSmith, darobin, timeless_mbp, heycam, ArtB, tlr, Marcos, timelyx, shepazu, trackbot 13:02:37 Present: Art, Josh, Robin 13:02:40 Zakim, call Mike-Mobile 13:02:40 ok, MikeSmith; the call is being made 13:02:42 +Mike 13:02:48 Present+ Mike 13:02:56 + +1.919.536.aacc 13:02:56 Zakim, unmute me 13:02:58 darobin should no longer be muted 13:03:04 Marcos_ has joined #wam 13:03:07 Zakim, mute me 13:03:07 darobin should now be muted 13:03:44 hsivonen: you gonna join? 13:04:00 I can call in 13:04:07 please do 13:04:22 + +1.479.524.aadd 13:04:31 Present+ Marcos 13:04:46 yep 13:04:53 easy to tell 13:05:04 +??P11 13:05:06 I can hear the trolls echoing behind you 13:05:07 that's me 13:05:17 Present+ Henri 13:05:20 Zakim, ??P11 is hsivonen 13:05:20 +hsivonen; got it 13:05:34 Topic: Review and tweak agenda 13:05:42 AB: agenda posted July 8 ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/0144.html ). One change is to drop 3.a. (Francois' comments) and add LC Comment #2233 from Josh ( http://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/42538/WD-widgets-20090528/2233 ). Any other change requests? 13:05:51 zakim, +1.479.524.aadd is me 13:05:51 +marcos; got it 13:06:11 AB: I note Henri is here 13:06:17 new TODO for A+E: http://www.w3.org/mid/1B5EE78B-5FA5-472B-9250-AAADE4A0900B@berjon.com 13:06:24 ... he says he is representing himself and NOT Mozilla 13:06:50 MS: during AOB want to talk about Team Contact going forward 13:06:59 Topic: Announcements 13:07:06 AB: Reminder there will be no widgets call on July 16, July 23 and Aug 6. Any other short announcements? 13:07:25 Topic: P&C spec: LC Comment #2233 13:07:38 AB: LC Comment #2233 ( http://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/42538/WD-widgets-20090528/2233 ) is from Josh. This is the only comment where the Commentor has indicated the group's response is not acceptable. We have an obligation to try to reach consensus so we will start there. 13:08:09 AB: Josh, would you please briefly clarify for whom you speak re your objection to the group's proposal? 13:08:43 JS: I can't formally speak for Nokia and I can't formally speak for Mozilla 13:08:51 ... so I can say I speak for myself 13:09:07 ... but I have talked to other people that agree with position 13:09:47 abraun has joined #wam 13:09:58 + +68028aaee 13:10:30 AB: I want to clearly understand the current model and the objections Josh and Henri have to it 13:10:38 AB: Marcos, would you please briefly summarize the issue? 13:10:55 MC: the essence of the issue 13:11:03 ... the current model is too flexible 13:11:31 ... my understand is JS and HV think the flexibilily should be restricted 13:11:38 For the record, I'm not objecting to anything 13:13:20 AB: please, everyone add to the minutes if something is missing 13:13:30 AB: Josh, do you agree with MC's summary? 13:13:35 JS: yes, I do agree 13:13:41 ... one issue is how to choose the lang 13:13:52 ... another is what to do with the pkg 13:14:10 ... the pkg fallback flexibility is too much 13:14:22 ... and think user will be surprised by results 13:14:55 AB: what is the issue for the pkg creator? 13:15:40 JS: I've had some discussions off list and some of that is not part of Public record 13:15:50 ... but I will illustrate via an example 13:17:04 [ Josh looks for a log of offlist discussions ... ] 13:17:11 ok... a german company creates a package for a company in Switzerland 13:17:54 the package is therefore originally in German (de) 13:18:19 they also then translate it into Italian (as some portion of Switzerland speaks Italian) 13:18:29 and then they translate it into French (... for the same reason) 13:18:30 Present+ Benoit 13:18:56 they also commission for someone to translate it into English 13:19:21 the German company then proceeds to create an updated version which adds additional resources (pictures) 13:19:47 yes 13:19:51 pictures with text 13:20:11 for reference, Nokia uses Flash for its Text :) 13:21:09 sorry... the updated version has another resource for pears and is in turn translated for De, It, Fr 13:21:33 another version later updates to add Bananas but the resource is only provided in De and It 13:21:48 and finally a final version adds yet another image resource which is only available in De 13:21:58 The user preference is Fr, It, En, De 13:22:09 and the result is that they get pictures from a mix of at least three of those 13:22:12 Zakim, unmute me 13:22:14 darobin should no longer be muted 13:22:30 RB: I think this is a contrived example 13:22:53 ... one company publishes a widget that supports multiple langs 13:23:24 ... think it is rare to get images from mixed langs 13:23:41 ... may get one or two links for a diff lang 13:23:51 ... which is better than no links 13:24:30 JS: some images are added later, not part of the HTML 13:24:37 ... the initial testing looks OK 13:25:34 Present+ AndyB 13:27:04 AB: I would like you Josh to follow your No email with a clear example of the problem 13:27:18 JS: I'm concerned about bad fallbacks 13:27:33 ... it can cause bad usability 13:27:53 ... user in one case thinks a feature is missing 13:28:28 AB: will you please follow-up your email Josh? 13:28:39 JS: yes, I can do that; will point to this discussion 13:29:07 ACTION: soref send an email to public-webapps that clearly identifies the L10N problem you see with the current L10N model 13:29:07 Created ACTION-379 - Send an email to public-webapps that clearly identifies the L10N problem you see with the current L10N model [on Josh Soref - due 2009-07-16]. 13:29:19 MC: our L10N people think this is a good model 13:29:50 AB: Henri, any comments from you? 13:29:57 HS: I am not objecting to anything 13:30:05 ... if this is about failure modes 13:30:13 ... if the L10N is not complete 13:30:27 ... can get a bad experience if get multiple langs for one experience 13:30:59 ... want to minimize the "ugli-ness" of the failure mode 13:31:15 AB: I see little to no value in continuing to debate the "perfect model". On the contrary, I think we need to get real data from both Implementors and Localizers and that means getting the spec to Candidate and not continuing to debate and re-debate and re-re-debate, ad nauseam the perfect L10 model. 13:32:05 AB: want to know our options here 13:32:34 s/if this is about failure modes/This is about failure modes/ 13:32:54 AB: I don't see a compromise position here; does anyone? 13:33:03 RB: no I don't think the two models can be merged 13:33:33 JS: what are the exit criteria here? 13:33:38 ... is it 2 impls? 13:33:40 RB: yes 13:34:09 JS: do these impls need to be shipping? 13:34:34 RB: that is difficult because the impls are shipping and difficult to change 13:35:35 s/that is difficult because the impls are shipping and difficult to change/that would be a problem because you'd have to have widely shipped implementations and widely used content to satisfy your criteria, at which point we can't change the spec if it's broken anyway/ 13:36:06 AB: is voting the next step? 13:36:12 MS: no, not necessarily 13:36:30 ... you can record a decision without recording a vote 13:36:49 ... can just send an email to list saying "we discussed this and decided ..." 13:37:02 ... and tell people to send comments if they have any 13:37:12 ... want to avoid the use of "objection" if possible 13:37:23 ... need to think about "I can Live With It" 13:37:23 -marcos 13:37:45 ... note that consensus is a goal and it can't always be achieved 13:37:53 ... must also move forward 13:38:14 ... can document we tried to get consensus but couldn't 13:38:21 +marcos 13:38:24 ... not absolutely required to get a vote 13:38:32 ... must clearly describe the issue 13:38:42 ... and state the proposal on how to move forward 13:39:02 ... and then if someone wants to file a Formal Objection they can do that 13:39:36 ... need to record the decision 13:39:50 ... and provide an opp for others to comment 13:39:53 -marcos 13:40:06 AB: thanks Mike 13:40:19 ... ICLWI means the group can continue 13:40:28 +marcos 13:40:57 AB: my proposal is we mark this comment as Resolved_No 13:41:05 ... and that we continue 13:41:12 ... I can respond to the mail list 13:41:21 ... and point to this discussion 13:41:54 Zakim, who's here? 13:41:54 On the phone I see Josh_Soref, ArtB, darobin, Mike, +1.919.536.aacc, hsivonen, +68028aaee, marcos 13:41:56 On IRC I see abraun, marcos, RRSAgent, Zakim, hsivonen, MikeSmith, darobin, timeless_mbp, heycam, ArtB, tlr, timelyx, shepazu, trackbot 13:41:57 AB: who supports keepiing the L10N model as is? 13:42:07 MC: I do 13:42:10 RB: I do 13:42:20 Benoit: I do 13:42:21 i do 13:42:31 AB: I do 13:42:43 ... that is speaking on behalf of Nokia 13:42:51 ... Jere is on holiday 13:43:10 hsivonen, you are still permitted to express an opinion -- it's not a formal vote 13:43:20 AB: I am hearing quite a bit of support for this 13:44:10 JS: when I talk to Maemo guys, they do not like the current model 13:44:27 RB: this isn't a formal vote 13:44:59 JS: if during the impl phase, serious issues are found, what can we do? 13:45:30 MC: we can fix it if indeed the impl experience dictates that a change is needed 13:46:13 JS: if we can fix it if we show that we really screwed up, then that's great 13:46:39 ... but if I find out that we cannot fix even though we screwed up that is very bad 13:47:09 - +68028aaee 13:47:26 AB: one of the realities is people are alreday implementing and shipping the LC version 13:47:35 s/reda/read/ 13:48:10 RRSAgent, pointer? 13:48:10 See http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T13-48-10 13:48:17 + +68028aaff 13:48:29 ACTION: barstow respond to Josh's no on 2233 with a pointer to these minutes 13:48:29 Created ACTION-380 - Respond to Josh's no on 2233 with a pointer to these minutes [on Arthur Barstow - due 2009-07-16]. 13:48:59 Topic: P&C spec: Comments status and Next Steps 13:49:09 AB: all of the LC comments are logged in the Comment Tracker ( http://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/42538/WD-widgets-20090528/ ). There are about 50 comments. Besides comment #2233 which is still marked as Open, all of the others are marked as "Resolved_Yes" which means we have responded to the comment, and we have either implemented our response or done nothing. 13:49:51 AB: we are still awaiting responses for 19/46 comments: 16 from Opera's Anne van Kesteren; 1 from Opera's Martin Nilsson (#2230); 1 from Celestial Wake's Jeff Decker (#2228); 1 from Nokia's Jere Kapyaho (#2216). 13:50:31 AB: Mike, would you please clarify "how long must we wait for a Commentor to respond to our proposed resolution?"? 13:51:08 MS: there is no documented minimum 13:51:15 ... but the common practice is 2 weeks 13:51:37 ... must consider though that during July and August 2 weeks is probably not realistic 13:52:10 ... the fair thing is to wait for people to return from vacation 13:52:53 RB: in the case of Editorial comments, do we need to wait for 2 weeks, even in the Summer? 13:52:58 MS: no, I don't think so 13:53:16 ... but if there are Substantive comments then I think waiting for a response is OK 13:53:32 AB: Marcos, what was the date of your latest reply to Anne? 13:53:47 ... or any of the commentors? 13:54:02 AB: I think it is July 3 13:54:09 MC: yes. 13:54:16 ... Anne's comments were not Substantive 13:54:27 ... we also responded to all of his comments during the f2f meeting 13:54:39 ... so he is well aware of our position on his comments 13:54:58 ... none of the other comments were sustantive 13:55:04 ... we did fix some bugs 13:55:46 Benoit: wondering if the 2 week period has already passed for the other comments 13:55:56 MC: I think we have addressed everyone's comments now 13:56:35 AB: what about #2230 from Martin Nilsson of Opera? 13:56:43 MC: his comments were for clarifications 13:56:53 ... and non-normative parts of the spec 13:57:03 ... AFAIC, we are done with his comments 13:57:19 ... I will forward his comments to the list; he may not be subscribed 13:57:35 ... just waiting for an OK 13:58:04 AB: re #2228, I asked Jeff Decker to reply to your response Marcos and he hasn't done so 13:58:15 ... but those were clarification? 13:58:18 MC: yes that's right 13:58:32 AB: re #2216 from Jere 13:58:50 ... he won't be back for 3-4 weeks 13:58:56 MC: this is not blocking 13:59:17 AB: he was generally OK with the L10N model, right? 13:59:20 MC: yes 13:59:55 AB; it appears that we feel like we do not have to wait for any responses before making a decsion about moving to CR 14:00:02 s/AB;/AB:/ 14:00:11 AB: is that true? 14:00:15 MC: yes, that's correct 14:00:50 AB: draft proposal: We are ready to publish a Candidate Recomm for the P+C spec 14:01:03 AB: any objections to that proposal? 14:01:05 [ None ] 14:01:25 RESOLUTION: we are ready to publish a Candidate Recommendation for the P+C spec 14:01:39 ACTION: barstow create the Trans Request for the P+C CR 14:01:39 Created ACTION-381 - Create the Trans Request for the P+C CR [on Arthur Barstow - due 2009-07-16]. 14:01:59 ACTION: smith work with Art to schedule the Director's Call for the P+C CR 14:01:59 Created ACTION-382 - Work with Art to schedule the Director's Call for the P+C CR [on Michael(tm) Smith - due 2009-07-16]. 14:02:28 Topic: A&E spec: plan for LCWD publication 14:02:37 AB: Robin, Marcos, what is the status of the A&E spec ( http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/ )? 14:02:52 -hsivonen 14:03:08 RB: I have been doing a bunch of edits 14:03:20 ... would be good to link to a published Window Modes spec 14:03:27 ... because one attr points to it 14:03:31 ... and that is a Blocker 14:03:39 ... dropped one attr 14:03:44 ... clarified some other attrs 14:03:55 ... updated preferences based on input from Hixie 14:03:59 ... updated IDL 14:04:08 ... need to fix showNotification 14:04:14 ... and need input from Opera 14:04:27 ACTION: marcos provide a specification for the showNotification method 14:04:27 Created ACTION-383 - Provide a specification for the showNotification method [on Marcos Caceres - due 2009-07-16]. 14:04:51 AB: that would be great 14:05:26 - +68028aaff 14:05:40 AB: if Charles or a Team Contact wants to push this to LC, that's OK with me - while I'm gone 14:06:01 RB: as soon as I fix these 2 pending issues, I can ask for a LC decision 14:06:15 AB: we can use the CfC mechanism 14:06:17 RB: sure 14:06:30 AB: anything else on A+E spec? 14:06:38 RB: please read it Everyone! 14:06:56 MC: I'll review it after I create the showNotif text 14:07:08 Topic: WARP spec: plan for LCWD publication 14:07:15 AB: Robin, what is the status of the WARP spec ( http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-access/ )? 14:08:01 AB: what's the next step? FPWD was published about 4 weeks ago. 14:08:08 RB: we haven't had any feedback 14:08:14 ... OMTP people seem to be happy 14:08:48 AB: no feedback can be a concern but can also mean everyone is OK with it 14:09:00 RB: well, we talked about it a lot before FPWD with TLR, et al. 14:09:18 ... a good soln to no feeback is to go to LC 14:09:24 AB: I'm thinking the same things 14:09:33 AB: so, is it ready for LC? 14:09:51 ... is it feature complete? 14:09:56 RB: yes, I think so 14:10:18 ... I do need a RNG schema but I can do that during CR since it is Informative 14:10:35 AB: does it meet all of the relevant requirements? 14:11:04 RB: the spec includes a list of reqs 14:11:17 AB: so I think we can say yes, it meets them all 14:11:21 MC: yes, I agree 14:11:38 AB: draft resolution: we are ready to publish a LCWD of the WARP spec 14:11:44 AB: any objections? 14:11:47 [ None ] 14:12:00 RESOLUTION: we are ready to publish a LCWD of the WARP spec 14:12:19 ACTION: barstow submit the request to publish LCWD of the WARP spec 14:12:19 Created ACTION-384 - Submit the request to publish LCWD of the WARP spec [on Arthur Barstow - due 2009-07-16]. 14:12:41 Topic: Widgets Updates spec: 14:12:50 AB: there has been some discussion ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009JulSep/0108.html ) about the Widgets Updates spec ( http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-updates/ ). Note we can continue to work on the spec while the PAG is still in operation. 14:14:01 MC: the proposal is to drop the checkForUpdate method 14:14:06 AB: are you OK with that? 14:14:09 MC: yes, I am 14:14:27 AB: any concerns or objections to removing that method? 14:14:30 [ None ] 14:14:51 AB: after that change is made, do we want to publish a new WD? 14:15:21 RB: there are a couple of other minor changes that should be made as well 14:15:36 AB: I can make the changes if MC is too busy 14:15:42 MC: yes, that would be OK with me 14:16:10 s/AB: I can make the changes/RB: I can make the changes/ 14:17:14 RB: I prefer publishing a new WD as it emphasizes that work has not stopped 14:17:20 AB: I agree with that 14:18:21 RB: we can ask Charles or TC to make a pub request after it is ready 14:18:26 AB: OK, that's fine with me 14:18:44 AB: anything else on Updates? 14:18:47 [ No ] 14:18:54 Topic: AOB 14:19:01 AB: the next Widgets call will be July 30 14:20:06 MS: XHTML2 WG charter will not be renewed and consequently, all of the *HTML work will be done in the HTML WG 14:20:33 ... that means I will spend 100% of my time on HTML, at least for the time being 14:21:03 ... another Team Contact will be appointed for Widgets 14:23:55 ... by the next call expect the new TC for Widgets to join 14:24:48 RRSAgent, make log Public 14:25:16 AB: thanks for your good work and good luck in your new work! 14:25:24 AB: anything else? 14:25:26 [ No ] 14:25:37 AB: Meeting Adjourned 14:25:43 -Mike 14:25:44 -Josh_Soref 14:25:44 -darobin 14:25:47 -ArtB 14:25:54 -marcos 14:26:05 RRSAgent, make minutes 14:26:05 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-minutes.html ArtB 14:27:26 - +1.919.536.aacc 14:27:28 IA_WebApps(Widgets)9:00AM has ended 14:27:29 Attendees were Josh_Soref, +1.781.993.aaaa, ArtB, +33.1.77.11.aabb, darobin, Mike, +1.919.536.aacc, hsivonen, marcos, +68028aaee, +68028aaff 14:36:06 Marcos_ has joined #wam 15:48:31 zakim, bye 15:48:31 Zakim has left #wam 15:55:31 rrsagent, bye 15:55:31 I see 6 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-actions.rdf : 15:55:31 ACTION: soref send an email to public-webapps that clearly identifies the L10N problem you see with the current L10N model [1] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T13-29-07 15:55:31 ACTION: barstow respond to Josh's no on 2233 with a pointer to these minutes [2] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T13-48-29 15:55:31 ACTION: barstow create the Trans Request for the P+C CR [3] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T14-01-39 15:55:31 ACTION: smith work with Art to schedule the Director's Call for the P+C CR [4] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T14-01-59 15:55:31 ACTION: marcos provide a specification for the showNotification method [5] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T14-04-27 15:55:31 ACTION: barstow submit the request to publish LCWD of the WARP spec [6] 15:55:31 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/07/09-wam-irc#T14-12-19