15:03:54 RRSAgent has joined #w3process 15:03:54 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-irc 15:03:56 RRSAgent, make logs public 15:03:56 Zakim has joined #w3process 15:03:58 Zakim, this will be Process 15:03:58 ok, trackbot, I see AB_(PROCESS)10:00AM already started 15:03:59 Meeting: Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference 15:03:59 Date: 09 December 2014 15:04:17 zakim, who is on the phone? 15:04:17 On the phone I see Judy, SteveZ, Mike_Champion 15:05:46 agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Dec/0008.html 15:06:17 chair: SteveZ 15:06:53 Zakim, code 15:06:53 I don't understand 'code', timeless 15:06:58 Zakim, what is the code? 15:06:58 the conference code is 7762 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), timeless 15:07:16 +timeless 15:07:20 Zakim, mute me 15:07:20 timeless should now be muted 15:07:24 scribe: timeless 15:07:28 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:07:28 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:07:43 RRSAgent, make logs world 15:07:46 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:07:46 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:07:56 issue-129? 15:07:56 issue-129 -- Should the Process define Coordination Groups? -- open 15:07:56 http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/129 15:08:11 s/issue-129?/Topic: issue-129/ 15:08:14 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:08:14 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:09:02 TOPIC: Issue 129 15:09:18 s/TOPIC: Issue 129// 15:09:48 SteveZ: Judy you were going to ask your Coord Group how they felt about joining the 15:09:58 Judy: i had a chance to talk to them Wednesday 15:10:07 ... people are agreeable to that if they have to 15:10:19 ... but they have a strong preference to keep it as a structured C Group 15:10:43 ... the other person active in a Coord Group, Phil Archer, it sounds like he's going to try to join the call as well 15:11:03 ... I also heard from marie that she didn't think jeff was going to join the call 15:11:33 ... i'd be interested in a discussion if a Community Group would be interested in a discussion about encouraging discussion (?) overall 15:11:44 ... it's possible w/o removing kinds of coordination that are working for some groups 15:11:49 ... to make things flexible/broader 15:11:54 +Jeff 15:12:06 ... i understand that you (the TF) have a strong goal to streamline the process 15:12:12 s/... I also heard from marie that she didn't think jeff was going to join the call// 15:12:19 ... i understand that virginie is working on ... 15:12:28 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:12:28 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:12:48 ... with the Coordination stuff that's working, it's the preference of the WAI Coordination Group folks that they'd be able to continue in that format if possible 15:13:02 ... if that mechanism were removed from the charter, since they're still eager to meet in a Coordination format 15:13:05 ... they'd still do that 15:13:17 ... they're asking me to try to do more to keep the Coordination Group structure in tact 15:13:29 ... i understand the interest of this group is to try to streamline the process 15:13:51 ... in looking at that section of the Process document, it seems like there are some redundancy that could be eliminated 15:14:04 ... the basic style of the WAI Coord Group has been going for a long time 15:14:11 ... we use it to get input from the WAI Groups 15:14:22 ... and we use it for timely input when talking about new verticals 15:14:36 ... we're being encouraged internally to handle 15:14:37 phila has joined #w3process 15:14:41 ... and the group has been extremely useful 15:14:57 ... that's where we see the main part of our task looking ahead 15:15:01 jeff has joined #w3process 15:15:05 +[IPcaller] 15:15:11 zakim, ipcaller is me 15:15:11 +phila; got it 15:15:12 ... feeding out to the WGs/public 15:15:23 ... so there's interest in keeping it, but i understand the process preference 15:15:44 SteveZ: we talked about the side discussion two weeks ago and agreed to delay until after your Dec 3rd telcon 15:15:54 ... the general consensus then (not of a huge number of people) 15:16:06 ... was that the goal is to try to only put into the process things that *need* to happen 15:16:11 ... in a particular way 15:16:20 s/particular way/*particular way*/ 15:16:23 mchampion has joined #w3process 15:16:29 ... there was total agreement that coordination is important 15:16:42 ... but coming up w/ one mechanism that works for everyone seems to be very difficult 15:16:52 ... i'm in a group that strongly rejected the Coordination Group approach 15:17:07 ... in the Interactive area (HTML, CSS, SVG) 15:17:18 ... they adopted alternative mechanisms for dealing w/ coordination 15:17:27 ... it seemed more important to not require any particular thing 15:17:37 ... at the time Coordination Groups were created, they were a management structure 15:17:48 ... over time, that worked in certain places, and it works well for you, i understand that 15:18:00 ... but it didn't work everywhere, and other mechanisms were taken into use 15:18:14 ... in particular, the role of Domain leads (which aren't in the process), increased 15:18:24 ... we don't want to stick that into the process, that's the organization of the Team 15:18:42 ... this would be a good thing to be put into a Best Practices thing 15:18:49 ... if we had such a place, but we don't at this time 15:18:58 ... i don't see enough reason to keep it in the process 15:19:07 ... i'd prefer to move it to some document about Best Practices 15:19:07 q+ 15:19:23 mchampion: you summarized the points discussed previously 15:19:44 ... this mechanism that works for some is fine, but it's a practice, not something to be baked into the process 15:19:53 ... no one is asking Judy to change anything we do in W3C 15:20:00 ... if a meeting is valuable, set it up 15:20:12 ... if it's important for certain Groups, you could put it in the charter 15:20:31 ... as it isn't important for dozens of WGs, it doesn't belong in Process 15:20:38 Judy: SteveZ 's summary was helpful 15:20:52 ... i tried to understand from the minutes and was concerned/confused 15:20:57 ... as they indicated that WAI was the only 15:21:08 ... but phila joined, and he's in another 15:21:25 ... i liked the idea of trying to encourage more coordination, and more flexible/fluid forms of that 15:21:40 ... even a statement in the Process encouraging coordination and pointing whereever could perhaps be useful 15:21:41 q+ 15:21:45 ack Judy 15:21:57 ... it seems we do need evolution of the method, and multiple methods 15:22:11 ... and we need coordination among the groups, and to enhance coordination amongst the parts of W3C 15:22:27 ... one of the things people in our groups are concerned about losing if we lose our formal structure 15:22:36 ... currently we do our discussion in Member Confidential space 15:22:45 ... and i've checked with how people feel about this 15:22:57 ... over time, people feel that's less important, but people feel there's still some need for that 15:23:24 ... if we have groups that feel a need to work with member confidential information from other WGs that still work w/ Member Confidential 15:23:40 ... and people who are familiar w/ how others talk in a group and can talk rapidly 15:23:48 ... i'm curious, if we could put a line in the charter 15:24:03 ... would it be acceptable to do some work in Member Confidential 15:24:14 ... or would pressure apply on this? 15:24:20 mchampion: you might want to ask ArtB about that 15:24:25 ... he has strong preferences for public 15:24:34 SteveZ: in W3C, it's up to the group to decide 15:24:55 ... i personally believe there are certain topics that do not need to be open/should not be open 15:25:05 ... and there are techniques that mitigate this, such as publishing minutes 15:25:14 ... there's nothing in the process that says that a group has to be open 15:25:22 ... AB is in a more closed space than Member 15:25:40 ... although they try to publish minutes publicly, for discussion that don't need to be closed 15:25:41 ack phila 15:26:12 phila: hello, I'm Phil Archer, Data Activity lead, succeeded Ivan Herman 15:26:22 ... and he stressed that I should set up a Coordination Group 15:26:25 ... i thought everyone did it 15:26:34 ... and was surprised to discover that only Judy and I do it 15:26:44 ... i'm not here to stress support for Coordination Groups 15:27:07 ... I had a case recently where I finally got to talk to darobin 15:27:20 ... had i had it 6 months earlier, it could have quite radically changed the charter of a WG 15:27:32 ... a different perspective on the charter had i had it earlier 15:27:40 ... it doesn't concern me whether it's in the Process 15:27:48 ... it's up to individual Staff members to make it happen 15:27:50 s/darobin/Robin Berjon/ 15:27:59 ... there's a lot of things 15:28:06 ... we have to report to the AC how we spent our time 15:28:09 ... FT 15:28:26 ... what worries me, is that it ceases to be part of the job that I can say i spent time on 15:28:30 ... that our members are happy with 15:28:38 ... we all agree that coordination is important 15:28:42 q+ 15:28:58 SteveZ: that's a new piece of information that i don't think anyone has brought up before 15:29:10 ... both Members and Team management perception about time/what needs to be done 15:29:29 ... there's a piece of this consensus that we need something in the process document that it is the responsibilities of the Chairs 15:29:37 ... that coordination w/ related activities take place 15:29:47 q+ 15:29:58 ... and presumably points to a place that talks about how coordination could take place 15:30:05 ... and the Members would agree that coordination would take place 15:30:20 ... the issue of how the Team evaluates its employees should up to the Team, and not the Process 15:30:32 ... we're trying not to put concrete things in about how the Team should work 15:30:39 q+ 15:30:44 ... i assume jeff can speak to that, but it doesn't need to be here 15:30:45 ack mchampion 15:30:55 mchampion: i was going to make the same point 15:31:04 ... this is the value that the Team adds that the Members pay for 15:31:16 ... it's W3M's job to organize this, and reward/manage the people to make it happen 15:31:31 ... Members, PoV, we want this to happen, and we trust the Team to make it happen 15:31:42 ... as seamlessly as possible 15:31:44 ack Judy 15:31:50 Judy: i think this is a helpful piece as well 15:32:05 ... for coordination to work, it needs the Team to facilitate it happening 15:32:11 ... but also Chairs to come to whatever form it is 15:32:18 ... part of the request to retain structure is 15:32:38 ... currently, some chairs find it helpful for their management in their organization to see that this is the structure 15:32:42 ... i think we can work around that 15:32:55 ... part of the request was that formal chartering helps in time allocation 15:33:07 ... i want to raise one other thing, less to do w/ my Coordination Group 15:33:23 ... but maybe to how Best Practices on coordination might be written 15:33:29 ... that things are Discoverable 15:33:40 ... right now, we have very few chartered coordination groups 15:33:48 ... the coordination that's going on tends to be more ad-hoc 15:33:59 ... the coordination that phila described is more typical than is probably ideal 15:34:09 ... w/ a group that's findable, we have people come to us, because we're very discoverable 15:34:29 ... i'd say that, how coordination is handled in Process going forward, if there was something not just encouraging coordination 15:34:36 ... but also that they be findable very readily 15:35:00 ... possibly a place that they post that there's coordination about this going on _here_ 15:35:09 ... the more that coordination goes underground 15:35:24 q? 15:35:28 ... where things -- these new groups are covering X scope and getting sorted out 15:35:43 SteveZ: that was one of the points that came up at the Chairs meeting at TPAC 15:35:52 ... where we sort of said we were proposing to cancel this 15:36:05 ... the comment that we should find a better mechanism 15:36:19 ... in some sense, the announcement list that was created is doing some of that 15:36:29 ... it's doing it in a broadcast, and everything all-together mechanism 15:36:41 ... it's probably too much data for anybody to be really follow, unless we had filtering mechanisms 15:36:46 ... and i don't know what those would be 15:36:59 ... you're not the first one to raise the point that we need better mechanisms for people to know what's going on in the org 15:37:00 q? 15:37:01 ack jeff 15:37:21 jeff: i mostly wanted to comment on phila 's comment on Time Allocation 15:37:41 ... once it's out of the process, coordination groups won't be accountable in how we report things to the Membership 15:37:51 ... that's a new issue, thanks phila for bringing it up 15:38:02 ... i agree w/ mchampion, it's something the Team can figure out 15:38:18 ... it dawns on me that we have the same thing re: removing Activities 15:38:23 ... I believe this is a fixable problem 15:38:46 ... If we were to eliminate Coordination Groups, the way that we'd fix the problem, we'd take the time assigned to Coordination Groups 15:38:55 ... we'd average/blend it into the time spent on the various WGs that are related 15:39:21 ... i'd share w/ the TF that the Membership tends to review allocation of time to WG at times like a Hawk 15:39:46 ... they may see that in the year after introducing the changes to remove Activities/Coordination Groups that the amount of staffing time is going up 15:39:54 ... when we draft the announcement for wide-review 15:40:17 ... i'd appreciate it if the TF and the AB communicate that as a consequence of these changes, there will be a slight uptick in the amount of time assigned to these WGS 15:40:20 s/WGS/WGs/ 15:40:31 ... that was formerly assigned to Coordination Groups/Activities 15:40:44 ... i think if we do that, it's only a small problem 15:40:56 SteveZ: IanJ has said that the place Chairs go to get information 15:41:06 ... i don't think that that has happened in a significant way eyt 15:41:09 s/eyt/yet/ 15:41:12 jeff: that's correct 15:41:25 ... there was an earlier discussion between you (SteveZ) and Judy 15:41:41 ... we need a stub in the Process to underline the importance of coordination 15:41:48 ... and it'd be good if the Editor or someone did this 15:41:52 ... as well as a pointer 15:42:03 ... we could basically duplicate the current text and put it in the guidebook 15:42:05 ... and have a pointer to that 15:42:26 q+ 15:42:28 ... and if/when IanJ gets around to updating the guidebook, we'd update the pointer in the Process document 15:42:31 q+ 15:42:47 ack Judy 15:42:49 Judy: i like that idea 15:43:11 ... i'd encourage also, it'd be easy to list individual Best Practices that different clusters of groups could take up for coordination 15:43:27 ... i think it might be harder to enhance discoverability of clusters to eachother 15:43:34 ... and i'd be happy to brainstorm w/ SteveZ on that 15:43:46 ... getting early stage visibility across W3C could be extremely helpful 15:44:17 q+ to ask if we'd need to update the Process as we change the Best Practice, or just update the Best Practice 15:44:46 ACTION SteveZ: draft text on coordiantion responsibility for the Process Document and edit Guide to begin collecting Best Practicres for same 15:44:46 Created ACTION-44 - Draft text on coordiantion responsibility for the process document and edit guide to begin collecting best practicres for same [on Steve Zilles - due 2014-12-16]. 15:45:00 q? 15:45:22 SteveZ: i'll check w/ IanJ and see what he wants to do it 15:45:32 ... i suspect he'll agree w/ jeff that the best place to do it is within the guide 15:45:36 ... i don't think there's a better place 15:45:56 ... with that, i think we can agree, that the sentiment is to remove Coordination Groups from the Process 15:46:11 ... replace it with a note about the importance of coordination, and a pointer to the guidebook 15:46:31 ... and a note to Membership that this will affect the assignment of people's time 15:46:38 q? 15:46:38 ack me 15:46:39 timeless, you wanted to ask if we'd need to update the Process as we change the Best Practice, or just update the Best Practice 15:47:07 ... in a way that doesn't change people's actual time, just the listing of the allocation 15:47:39 q+ 15:47:39 jeff: my only point is that if we change where the document lives, we'd need to change the pointer 15:47:46 timeless: well, couldn't we point to a redirect 15:47:50 ... and just change the redirect 15:47:54 ack Judy 15:48:14 Judy: if there's a way to get a stable pointer, the way timeless is suggesting, could be a redirect, but gets you to the right best practices 15:48:16 ... that'd be useful 15:48:20 ... from my PoV 15:48:33 SteveZ: i think timeless 's point is a good one, i'll coordinate that w/ IanJ 15:48:37 Zakim, mute me 15:48:37 timeless should now be muted 15:48:54 ... i think that's it for Issue-129, it isn't quite closed, but w/ my action, i think we should be able to close it 15:48:58 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:48:58 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 15:49:24 topic: CfC on TAG election 15:49:31 SteveZ: afaict, the CfC failed 15:49:35 ... there were 3 responses 15:49:43 ... one from chaals saying that he didn't like it 15:49:45 ... one from XXX 15:49:47 ... one from dka 15:49:59 ... the rules that chaals established in the Process CG 15:50:06 q+ 15:50:09 ... seems to indicate that the CfC failed 15:50:20 -Judy 15:50:22 ... i think we have a difficulty of reaching consensus, except on phone calls 15:50:39 -phila 15:50:53 mchampion: chaals seems to have trouble coming to these calls, is that a scheduling issue? 15:51:09 ... my non vote, i'm happy w/ it, but i don't really see the problem in the first place 15:51:26 jeff: this one said silence does not mean assent 15:51:31 s/jeff/SteveZ/ 15:51:40 jeff: i think a large problem was that people didn't understand they needed to vote 15:51:52 ... i think many would have viewed it as an improvement over the current situation 15:52:00 ... that's the only reason i voted in favor 15:52:03 s/XXX/jeff/ 15:52:17 ... it might be useful to point out to the proponents that this was defeated due to lack of interest 15:52:25 ... that if they want to bring this forward in the future 15:52:31 ... they need to get out the vote 15:52:46 SteveZ: part of the problem is that WebApps CfCs say "silence votes w/ consensus" 15:52:58 ... chaals in setting up this CG, since he's chair of the CG 15:53:09 ... recognized this CG didn't have a standard working culture 15:53:16 ... and set it up to require Affirmative action 15:53:22 jeff: i think his rule is right for this group 15:53:32 ... in WebApps, people may have already worked on an issue, and are tuned in 15:53:37 ... and should go forward 15:53:43 ... but here, the vast majority of the CG is tuned out 15:53:57 SteveZ: i guess that most people assume the same rules as WebApps 15:54:05 ... i don't know what chaals's objection is 15:54:22 mchampion: can we keep the CfC open until chaals explains? 15:54:32 ... if it's just he basically agrees and just doesn't like the wording 15:54:40 ... then he should provide new wording 15:54:47 SteveZ: i'll announce the failure 15:55:01 jeff: i think the reason it failed is that supporters didn't announce their support 15:55:38 ... chaals has been a leading public/private proponent that the TAG/AB not be controlled by a small group 15:55:42 Zakim, unmute me 15:55:42 timeless should no longer be muted 15:55:57 mchampion: i'm surprised by this 15:56:09 jeff: he always makes this point that he doesn't want two companies to control the TAG/AB 15:56:16 SteveZ: i agree 15:56:29 ... i don't want to change the rules of company has at most one 15:56:44 jeff: the big issue is that people didn't vote/participate 15:57:12 Issue-141? 15:57:12 Issue-141 -- Improve Errata management in W3C -- open 15:57:12 http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/141 15:57:19 s/Issue-141?/Topic: Issue-141/ 15:57:27 SteveZ: got a setback 15:58:03 ... PSIG discussion of PP FAQ-37 seems to indicate a desire to change the FAQ 15:58:18 ... and therefore change the rules of what would be legitimate maintenance that keeps the Patent Commitments in tact 15:58:29 q+ 15:58:32 ... we'd need to consider what would happen 15:58:43 ... there are 4 kinds of changes under maintenance 15:58:47 ... 1. no text-change 15:58:52 ... 2. editorial 15:58:59 ... 3. changes that don't introduce new features 15:59:01 ... 4. new features 15:59:21 ... PSIG discussion seems to be "we don't know what a new feature is", so any change that isn't 1/2 would be 4 15:59:39 ... PSIG hasn't updated the FAQ, but it seems like they probably will 16:00:12 ... I sent a note to Don Deutsch and Scott Peterson, chairs of PSIG asking for an update 16:00:30 Zakim, mute m 16:00:30 Mike_Champion should now be muted 16:00:32 Zakim, mute me 16:00:32 timeless should now be muted 16:00:36 zakim, unmute mik 16:00:38 Mike_Champion should no longer be muted 16:00:57 mchampion: this CG is for what's desirable for W3 16:01:19 jeff: PSIG members from MS, Intel, Apple are basically supporting positions which would set back our intentions to be more agile w/ our process 16:01:52 s/MS, Intel, Apple/some companies/ 16:02:05 Zakim, unmute me 16:02:05 timeless should no longer be muted 16:02:18 Zakim, mute me 16:02:18 timeless should now be muted 16:02:19 q+ 16:02:24 ack jeff 16:03:40 RRSAgent, draft minutes? 16:03:40 I'm logging. Sorry, nothing found for 'draft minutes' 16:03:44 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:03:44 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 16:04:35 Zakim, unmute me 16:04:35 timeless should no longer be muted 16:06:10 SteveZ: we need to look at whether adding an Exclusion Call to the Formal Publication of Errata that makes it Normative 16:06:24 ... i don't remember if there's a formal exclusion opportunity there, but perhaps we need to add one 16:07:38 topic: Schedule 16:07:47 SteveZ: i suspect next week will be the last meeting of the year 16:07:55 ... that people will be too distracted on the 23rd 16:08:24 s/week/week (Dec 16th)/ 16:08:37 ... we'll tentatively resume January 6th 16:08:44 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:08:44 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 16:09:06 s/Topic: issue-129/Topic: Issue-129/ 16:10:01 -Mike_Champion 16:10:16 RRSAgent, draft minutes 16:10:16 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html timeless 16:11:01 [ Adjourned ] 16:11:07 trackbot, end meeting 16:11:07 Zakim, list attendees 16:11:07 As of this point the attendees have been Judy, SteveZ, Mike_Champion, timeless, Jeff, phila 16:11:15 RRSAgent, please draft minutes 16:11:15 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-minutes.html trackbot 16:11:16 RRSAgent, bye 16:11:16 I see 1 open action item saved in http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-actions.rdf : 16:11:16 ACTION: SteveZ to draft text on coordiantion responsibility for the Process Document and edit Guide to begin collecting Best Practicres for same [1] 16:11:16 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/12/09-w3process-irc#T15-44-46