On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Arthur Barstow <art.bars...@nokia.com> wrote: > It appears you are intentionally using "comments" here to differentiate > "contributions". Is that right?
Right. > I ask because, as I understand the CG process: before a person can make a > contribution to a CG spec, they must agree to a CLA for all of the CG's > specs; and a CG is only supposed to accept contributions from its CG > members. > > If your CG uses WebApps' list, how will contributions from non-CG people be > managed/tracked and how will the FSA be managed e.g. if non-CG contributions > are accepted? I spoke with Ian Jacobs about this. He clarified that "contributions" only means spec text. To date, I've written all actual spec text myself, and I expect this to continue. It's usual that only the editor writes the actual text of the specifications they edit. If for some reason I wanted to accept spec text from someone else, they'd have to submit it through the CG and we'd ensure it was properly tracked for legal reasons. As I understand it, it couldn't be submitted on public-webapps, but that's not a problem -- I just want to use public-webapps for discussion.