W3C Project Management Intro
W3C
W3C Project Management Intro
Philippe Le Hégaret <plh@w3.org>
Topics
Overall view
Working Group
Recommendation Track
Patent Policy
Specification timeline and lifecycle
Project Management Goals
Meet all of the milestones of all of the groups
Facilitate the work of Team Contacts, Chairs, and Editors
Drive the work necessary to achieve operational success
W3C Groups
Community Groups: incubate new ideas
Business Groups: for use cases
Interest Groups: for use cases, requirements, large area topics
Working Groups: for Web standards
W3C Overall
w3.org/PM
35
Working Groups
(29 active)
232 active specifications are tracked, including 197 aiming for Recommendation
Over 200 GitHub repositories, 4700 open issues, 27400 closed issues
See also
Status report of active W3C specifications
Anatomy of a Working Group
One or more chairs: convene, coordinate, maintain process and organization
One or more team contacts (avg 0.4 FTE): assists, monitor, admin
One or more editors: edit
Participants: contribute
Working Group
Recommendation Track
Maturity Levels
Working Draft: review
Candidate Recommendation: fulfill technical requirements, group consensus, wide review
Proposed Recommendation: formal review by the AC
Recommendation: standard for the Web
Patent Policy
Timeline
Lifecyle
Contributing
Raise and comment on issues on GitHub
Submit spec changes as a pull request
Submit tests to
web-platform-tests
(WPT)
Thank you
Overall view
Working Group
Recommendation Track
Patent Policy
Specification timeline and lifecycle
