From: Philippe Le Hegaret [mailto:p...@w3.org]
> But I hope you realize that coming in the W3C community, working with them > for while, and then take things away to continue the work elsewhere is > received as not working in good faith with the W3C community. This is not a > judgment of whether it was the right technical decision to do or not but > rather a pure social judgment. People in W3C working groups don't expect to > be told to go somewhere else after they contributed for a while. Now, if > you're interested in figuring out a way to solve this, I'm sure plenty of > folks in the W3C community, myself included, would be interested in finding a > way. Yeah, I agree it is socially awkward that this work on a monkeypatch spec was started outside the standards community whose specs it was monkeypatching. That was in fact one of the original impetuses for Anne's famous "Monkey patch" post. [1] Given that as a starting point for this effort, this move was an inevitable outcome---as we've already seen with <template>, the first successful web components spec. Setting aside the social judgement, from a technical point of view the path is clear. So although I regret the social downsides, it's unavoidable that if we want to as a larger community produce technically excellent specifications, we need to be able to accept this social issue and continue with the work of making the web platform better, without territorial concerns. [1]: https://annevankesteren.nl/2014/02/monkey-patch
