14:45:17 RRSAgent has joined #w3process 14:45:17 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-irc 14:45:19 RRSAgent, make logs public 14:45:19 Zakim has joined #w3process 14:45:21 Zakim, this will be 14:45:22 Meeting: Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference 14:45:22 Date: 04 November 2014 14:45:22 I don't understand 'this will be', trackbot 14:48:46 chair: SteveZ 14:50:42 Jay has joined #w3process 14:55:47 jeff has joined #w3process 15:00:52 zakim, who is on the phone? 15:00:53 sorry, SteveZ, I don't know what conference this is 15:00:53 On IRC I see jeff, Jay, Zakim, RRSAgent, SteveZ, chaals, mdjp, cwilso, timeless, fantasai, trackbot 15:02:42 zakim, this is process 15:02:42 ok, jeff; that matches AB_(PROCESS)10:00AM 15:02:50 zakim, who is on the phone? 15:02:51 On the phone I see Jeff, SteveZ 15:05:10 +??P10 15:05:12 +Keio (was ??P10) 15:05:20 Jay has joined #w3process 15:08:34 +Mike_Champion 15:09:03 zakim, code? 15:09:03 the conference code is 7762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), chaals 15:09:14 +[IPcaller] 15:09:21 zakim, [ip is me 15:09:21 +chaals; got it 15:10:26 +timeless 15:10:37 Zakim, mute me 15:10:37 timeless should now be muted 15:10:43 scribe: timeless 15:11:04 zakim, agenda? 15:11:04 I see nothing on the agenda 15:11:09 topic: review open action items 15:11:11 topic: issues 15:11:15 issue-140? 15:11:15 issue-140 -- The description of the Team in Section 2.2 of the process document is out of date -- open 15:11:15 http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/140 15:11:19 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:11:19 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:11:21 RRSAgent, make logs world 15:11:22 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:11:22 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:11:45 topic: ISSUE-140: The description of the Team in Section 2.2 of the process document is out of date 15:11:57 SteveZ: we seem to have consensus that it only needs to identify people that are listed in the document 15:12:10 ... we still have an open issue about whether the term W3C should be defined in the document 15:12:19 ... after thinking about it, i don't think it belongs in the team section 15:12:27 ... i think it belongs in 2.0, or 2.0.5 15:12:36 ... where it defines W3C/points to a definition 15:12:49 ... since it's a somewhat special status, it'd be good to be clear about what W3C refers to 15:13:09 Zakim, who is speaking? 15:13:12 Zakim, who is on the call? 15:13:12 On the phone I see Jeff, SteveZ, Keio, Mike_Champion, chaals, timeless (muted) 15:13:17 jeff: i think it should be somewhere 15:13:19 timeless, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: Jeff (66%), SteveZ (4%) 15:13:30 ... i'm still confused 15:13:36 ... as to whether the section numbers will stay the same 15:13:43 ... we talked about 3 different documents 15:13:48 ... not sure if we're doing that anymore 15:13:53 ... we talked about at the AB meeting 15:13:58 ... about a document w/ 2 parts 15:14:02 ... technical, and overall 15:14:11 ... as to 2.0, 2.0.5, or where it currently is 15:14:18 ... not sure until we talk about overall structure 15:14:25 q+ 15:14:33 ack chaals 15:15:08 chaals: i can live w/ saying "W3C ..." 15:15:14 ... but i'm not clear on what you want to say 15:15:44 SteveZ: it currently says "W3C is not currently incorporated for legal contracts 15:15:50 ... it is currently composed of 3 hosts 15:16:01 ... the hosts are governed by joint contracts 15:16:05 ... hosts aren't members" 15:16:10 chaals: it isn't normative 15:16:17 ... it's incorrect, as there's a 4th host 15:16:24 ... the other w3c hosts do appear to be members 15:16:39 SteveZ: i don't know if they are or not 15:16:44 chaals: they have AC reps 15:16:48 SteveZ: MIT doesn't 15:16:52 ... X does 15:17:00 jeff: Inria isn't the host, it's Ersum 15:17:13 SteveZ: Inria is a member 15:17:15 q+ to get a clarification about delegations/Ersum/ERCIM/ 15:17:19 ... Keio is host, is member ?? 15:17:26 s/Ersum/Ercim/ 15:17:34 q+ to get a clarification about delegations 15:17:36 ack jeff 15:17:36 jeff, you wanted to get a clarification about delegations/Ersum/ERCIM/ and to get a clarification about delegations 15:17:58 q+ to get a clarification about delegations 15:18:15 SteveZ: is there a reasonable place for the Process document to point to a definition of W3C? 15:18:26 chaals: where we have that information now is the obvious place to be 15:18:33 ... there's just lots of it that doesn't need to be there 15:18:41 SteveZ: there reason i was looking to point to something else 15:18:58 ... we shouldn't have to update the Process document when the structure of W3C which is outside the control of the Process/AC changes 15:19:08 ... I was looking for a place to point Outside the document that we could point to 15:19:17 chaals: minimize the information, don't name hosts 15:19:22 ... don't mention not part of AC 15:19:26 ... leave it where it is 15:19:43 jeff: i would not mind evaluating a specific textual proposal 15:19:52 q+ 15:19:54 ... i'm not sure that i know how to piece together the current language w/ chaals 's suggestion 15:20:00 ...but i'm not wedded to the current language 15:20:02 ack chaals 15:20:16 chaals: "w3c is not a legal entity, but represented by hosts" would be added to my previous proposal 15:20:22 ... i'll make a proposal along those lines 15:20:23 jeff: ok 15:20:30 SteveZ: i think that's as much as we can do about this one 15:20:42 ... does anyone object to removing the partial list of director's responsibilities 15:20:46 ack jeff 15:20:46 jeff, you wanted to get a clarification about delegations 15:20:59 jeff: i don't object per se 15:21:07 ... i think we should verify that this is listed elsewhere 15:21:22 ... if we want this to be viewed as editorial rather than substantive, we should be sure it's listed elsewhere 15:21:29 ... * lead Technical Architect of W3C 15:21:33 ... * responsible for Consensus 15:21:37 ... * responsible for Activities 15:21:46 chaals: we did this the list before 15:22:12 s/before/the week before TPAC/ 15:22:34 SteveZ: I believe that XXX is the only one not listed elsewhere 15:22:55 jeff: we had a debate on Chair of TAG 15:23:03 ... chaals raised it on the list 15:23:08 ... i pointed out that it was true 15:23:29 ... i don't object to removing things, as long as they aren't substantive/or are covered elsewhere 15:23:36 ... the other point i want to make is 15:23:48 ... "individuals may delegate" 15:23:53 chaals: it isn't on the chopping block 15:24:09 q+ to ask that delegation be clarified/expanded 15:24:13 ack me 15:24:14 timeless, you wanted to ask that delegation be clarified/expanded 15:24:24 SteveZ: chaals you'll make an updated proposal 15:26:12 timeless: AC Reps don't know all the things they can do, possibly including delegating being AC rep 15:26:12 q+ to ask whether AC rep delegation is new or existing 15:26:29 Exhaustive list of Director's responsibilities: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Oct/0181.html 15:26:35 ... it'd be useful to highlight some things, including Chairing meetings 15:26:37 ack jeff 15:26:37 jeff, you wanted to ask whether AC rep delegation is new or existing 15:26:54 jeff: for some purposes, including attending AC meetings twice a year, routinely that's done by delegation 15:27:04 ... if they aren't formally permitted to delegate, that'd be a substantive change 15:27:17 q+ 15:27:18 ... and given the role of AC in pulling together Patent commitments 15:27:35 ... i'm not opposed to making that change, but we should make AC aware of this change, if it's indeed a change 15:27:48 SteveZ: i think what AC rep can't delegate is being the email contact 15:28:19 timeless: "AC reps may delegate everything except being the email contact" 15:28:40 SteveZ: i was looking at the text, it says each Member shall send one representative to each AC meeting 15:28:59 ... i agree it's unclear 15:29:12 ... jeff, your point is that we shouldn't make such a change w/o getting AC input 15:29:18 jeff: you made my point better 15:29:30 ... if there are parts that can't be delegated, we shouldn't make changes to that 15:29:41 SteveZ: that's the one i'd suspect Ian would say can't be delegated 15:29:46 ... we need an official respondent 15:30:05 ... I'll try to open an issue on this 15:30:05 q- 15:30:23 issue-141? 15:30:23 issue-141 -- Improve Errata management in W3C -- open 15:30:23 http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/141 15:30:33 topic: ISSUE-141: Improve Errata management in W3C 15:30:45 SteveZ: i sent out proposed text over the weekend 15:30:49 TOPIC: 3. Issue-141: Improve Errata management in W3C 15:31:12 s/TOPIC: 3. Issue-141: Improve Errata management in W3C// 15:31:26 SteveZ: i don't know if people have had a chance to look at the text that i sent out 15:31:32 Proposed replacement text for section 7.7.1 was sent: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Nov/0004.html 15:31:35 +1 to Steve's text. 15:32:25 [-1 to the proposal] 15:32:27 q+ 15:32:36 timeless: i replied to that identifying a typographical error 15:32:40 ack chaals 15:32:50 chaals: the proposal adds a lot of stuff 15:32:59 ... i'm not sure they're done right 15:33:13 > A Working Group should keep their Recommendations up-to-date 15:33:21 chaals: yes, maybe, but that's not the same as having errata 15:33:37 > Recommendation may be edited to allow a viewer to selectively display 15:33:47 chaals: that's beyond Process into Pub-Rules and others 15:33:58 ... I think you could do something simpler "WG must track errata" 15:34:08 ... "each REC must link to information about errata" 15:34:11 SteveZ: i don't want to link to it 15:34:17 ... that's the reason for the proposal 15:34:26 ... the reason it's overly elaborate, i agree 15:34:32 ... is to allow the errata to be inplace 15:34:35 ... instead of a link to it 15:34:58 chaals: for some version of "in-place", i'd be happy w/ that 15:35:16 ... but what you're doing enforced behavior that i'm not convinced is necessary/desirable 15:35:17 dbaron has joined #w3process 15:35:39 ... on that basis, the proposal isn't something that i support 15:36:00 chaals: the same way that things have Patent Protection 15:36:16 SteveZ: the changes we're talking about are legitimate maintenance items and per the FAQ do have Patent Protection 15:36:23 ... covered by "set of allowed changes" 15:36:49 > any error that can be resolved by one or more changes in classes 1-3 of section 7.2.5 Classes of Changes. 15:36:56 chaals: Class 3 is not in 15:37:04 SteveZ: it is, per the FAQ 15:37:14 chaals: Changes to conformance 15:37:28 ... if you can prove to me that Class 3 do not provide Patent changes 15:37:51 SteveZ: i promised Scott that i'd provide concrete text for PSIG to review 15:37:59 ... you can raise it there 15:38:02 chaals: i'm raising it here 15:38:12 SteveZ: i'm copying from the FAQ which asserts the commitment does hold 15:38:22 ... if PSIG wants to change the FAQ then we can make this match it 15:38:48 timeless: can we point to the FAQ in the document? 15:38:58 chaals: the FAQ is a non-normative statement 15:39:02 ... it's an opinion about a document 15:39:08 SteveZ: fair enough 15:39:23 ... i still think we should send this to PSIG and ask 15:39:31 ... i don't know how to any-better-state it than the FAQ 15:39:44 ... we asked for the clarification a year and a half ago in my original letter to Scott 15:39:52 ... on maintenance and that was the opinion they came back with 15:40:00 s/opinion about a document/opinion about a document, and the members are under no binding commitment to those opinions/ 15:40:03 ... as long as it didn't introduce new features, then the Patent commitments applied 15:40:09 ... i understand your example 15:40:17 ... i mentioned it in our discussion at the PSIG 15:40:30 s/promised Scott/promised Scott Peterson (Co-chair of PSIG)/ 15:40:32 q? 15:41:13 SteveZ: chaals, you're concerned about people seeing a document that doesn't have Patent Protection 15:41:24 ... per FAQ #37, I asserted that it did have Patent Protection 15:42:01 q+ to ask another question about patent commitments 15:42:05 ... would that change your opinion if the PSIG says that Patent Protection applies 15:42:13 ... would you still object to in-place changes? 15:43:04 chaals: i'm not sure 15:43:23 ack jeff 15:43:23 jeff, you wanted to ask another question about patent commitments 15:43:34 chaals: there are two states of the Errata we're introducing to the inline document 15:43:39 s/chaals/jeff/ 15:43:51 ... 1. Errata is not at wide-review, 15:44:03 ... first question: do Patent Commitments apply then? 15:44:28 ... 2. At some point, we want the Errata to be brought to REC, by wide-review 15:44:37 ... when Errata are brought to REC, there's no question 15:44:47 ... chaals 's question is time limited to the first state 15:44:57 ... further, that text is clearly marked, so 15:45:12 ... what chaals is not sure about is clearly marked text for limited amounts of time 15:45:21 ... in most cases, it's unlikely there's a Patent on that text 15:45:24 ... since it's Errata 15:45:42 ... my theory is that we could say chaals 's concerns, even if accurate maps to a corner case in terms of real concerns 15:45:51 ... in terms of moving forward w/ SteveZ 's proposal 15:45:59 -Mike_Champion 15:46:47 timeless: QQQ 15:46:56 q+ to address timeless' question 15:47:09 chaals: there's text after this section which says you may move to REC 15:47:24 jeff: we're trying to not let perfect be the end of good enough 15:47:32 ... i'm not concerned w/ one-off documents 15:47:40 q+ 15:47:41 ... my concern is w/ documents in Living Document spaces 15:47:44 ... such as html 15:47:46 ack jeff 15:47:46 jeff, you wanted to address timeless' question 15:47:50 ... if we have HTML5 errata 15:48:07 ... it may be that we never go through the exercise of HTML5+Errata and bring that to REC 15:48:22 ... but someone doing HTML5.1 and the Errata text will show up native (normatively?) in the 5.1 document 15:48:32 ... and for practical purposes, that will get the Patent Commitment 15:48:47 ack chaals 15:48:59 chaals: in that situation, we've solved that problem better, than Errata, we have a new draft 15:49:04 ... you just point to the new draft 15:49:19 s/QQQ/Some docs may never get from point-1 to point-2. QQR/ 15:49:32 jeff: if we're successful in doing that, and we do it every year, then you're probably right 15:49:40 ... but we haven't proved that once in a row 15:49:45 ... it may come out a year from now 15:49:51 ... as chairs like 15:49:58 ... or it may come out two or three years later 15:50:09 ... for CSS, modules don't necessarily come out every year 15:50:16 q+ 15:50:22 ... if we rely only on the next dot-release, we'd be very much out of date 15:50:35 ... relying on Errata, or that dot-release w/ errata, 15:50:41 ... i think that's a good balance of trade-offs 15:50:48 SteveZ: the other point made to me, by other people 15:50:59 ... is that they don't see the next draft because it has other things than Errata 15:51:06 ... as a good place to highlight Errata changes 15:51:21 ... people would really like to see the previous drafts w/ Errata inline/flip back+forth 15:51:26 ... we have the technology for that 15:52:31 s/QQR/Should the process do more to encourage more rapid-transitions?/ 15:52:49 ack chaals 15:53:12 chaals: Errata are constrained as the first 2 sentences of 7.7.2 assumes 15:53:16 ... simple process of making that happen 15:53:23 ... not sure which problem we're addressing 15:53:33 ... either there are technical changes, in which case you want to see the technical changes 15:53:36 ... or there aren't 15:53:49 ... in which case, i'm surprised that anyone would spend time on getting punctuation right 15:54:37 ... i don't think we're solving a real problem 15:54:44 SteveZ: other people do think we're solving a real problem 15:54:56 ... they'd like the people who pick up the draft to ideally see the most up-to-date text 15:55:02 ... because people are still using /TR/ to get the page 15:55:21 ... things one link off, an updated-draft, or an errata page are not as good solutions as giving the most up-to-date information 15:55:26 ... that's the argument 15:55:48 chaals: i disagree 15:56:03 SteveZ: i'm at a loss as to how to resolve this disagreement 15:56:04 q+ 15:56:09 ... i think it will probably stay there 15:56:18 ... that's why i was hoping to let the process enable experiments 15:56:30 ... do you feel so strongly that you wouldn't like to enable in-line updates? 15:56:38 chaals: i think the process can enable inline updates 15:56:50 ... i feel we shouldn't be nickel-and-dimed into a living-standard model by accident 15:57:32 ... and the ways you can represent things in a rec 15:57:38 timeless: QRQ 15:57:47 chaals: if i looked at an Errata page that looked like a Spec 15:57:55 ... in what way would that not meet the requirement? 15:57:57 ack jeff 15:58:01 s/living-standard/so-called "living standard"/ 15:58:08 jeff: we need to back up to what the problem is 15:58:16 ... i understand that chaals is skeptical of the solution 15:58:38 ... i think it would be best to determine the problem 15:58:51 ... this wasn't raised by outsiders 15:58:56 ... it was raised by me 15:59:04 q+ to say that I do not think the problem itself is rubbish, but that the proposed solutions are not helping us do anything better 15:59:08 ... because i've had several important members share with me that when they want to know what's in HTML5 15:59:18 ... they don't look at our document, because our document is out-of-date 15:59:25 ... because in their perspective, that document is up-to-date 15:59:40 ... i think it's important that we be responsive not just to the wider community, but also to our members 15:59:54 ... there may be tricks, like timeless 's idea 16:00:04 ... but, the reality is, 16:00:12 ... the behavior of our groups is not following that trick 16:00:25 s/QRQ/could we call our document its own errata/ 16:00:53 SteveZ: from a practical perspective, i need text to send to PSID 16:00:58 s/PSID/PSIG/ 16:01:04 ... is it good enough to use to send to them 16:01:14 ... or, do we need new text? 16:01:23 chaals: i'll take an action item to suggest text for this issue 16:01:41 jeff: are we meeting on Veterans Day? 16:01:46 SteveZ: it had never occurred not to meet 16:02:05 ACTION: chaals to propose a resolution for issue 141 16:02:06 Created ACTION-38 - Propose a resolution for issue 141 [on Charles McCathie Nevile - due 2014-11-11]. 16:03:05 -chaals 16:03:18 [ So, yes, we'll meet ] 16:03:28 SteveZ: jay points out that this is now a midnight call 16:03:39 Zakim, who is on the call? 16:03:39 On the phone I see Jeff, SteveZ, Keio, timeless 16:04:10 topic: Voting 16:04:18 jeff: i don't think your agenda mentioned voting 16:04:25 ... there has been some progress on Voting 16:04:38 ... to at least grandfather in TAG people 16:04:57 SteveZ: DSinger asked DKA to do a CfC 16:05:04 ... i could send out a CfC on my text 16:05:14 ... if we're going to get consensus, we should get consensus of exact text 16:05:22 ... i don't want to have a vague thing 16:05:32 ... wording triggers more responses than the general statement 16:05:41 ... i can send the message to DKA about sending out the CfC 16:05:44 ... i'm following it 16:06:03 ... i didn't put it on today's discussion because i thought it was waiting for the CfC 16:06:17 i/Veterans/Topic: Next Week?/ 16:07:14 Topic: Time Zones 16:07:15 Jay: if the conference moves one hour forward (to 11pm), i'd be happy 16:07:27 SteveZ: we could move to a 7am Japan call 16:07:33 ... which makes the call late in Europe 16:08:03 ... ~6pm 16:08:12 jeff: it's nearly midnight in Europe 16:08:26 SteveZ: i'll do that offline 16:08:33 -Jeff 16:08:37 ... thanks all 16:08:38 -SteveZ 16:08:39 -Keio 16:08:39 [ Adjourned ] 16:08:47 -timeless 16:08:48 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:08:48 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-minutes.html timeless 16:08:49 AB_(PROCESS)10:00AM has ended 16:08:49 Attendees were Jeff, SteveZ, Keio, Mike_Champion, [IPcaller], chaals, timeless 16:11:40 trackbot, end meeting 16:11:40 Zakim, list attendees 16:11:40 sorry, trackbot, I don't know what conference this is 16:11:48 RRSAgent, please draft minutes 16:11:48 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-minutes.html trackbot 16:11:49 RRSAgent, bye 16:11:49 I see 1 open action item saved in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-actions.rdf : 16:11:49 ACTION: chaals to propose a resolution for issue 141 [1] 16:11:49 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-irc#T16-02-05 16:12:14 RRSAgent has joined #w3process 16:12:14 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-irc 16:12:16 s/Keio/Jay/ 16:12:52 s/[IPcaller], // 16:12:59 RRSAgent, make logs world 16:13:02 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:13:03 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/11/04-w3process-minutes.html timeless 16:13:17 RRSAgent, bye 16:13:17 I see no action items