On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ate Douma <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/14/2012 03:31 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >> >> I have created a draft of the graduation board resolution [1] and would >> like to get feedback from the community regarding the proposal; >> specifically, the wording of the description& scope. Ate made a great >> point that we need to ensure it is narrow enough that we can execute against >> it, but broad enough to include future use cases. The rest of the template >> was filled out with the result of PPMC discussions held on rave-private@ >> > Thanks for drafting up the charter Matt. > > The crucial part of the charter we should agree upon is indeed the > description of the *scope* of the project. > > The proposed text currently is: > > [..] "a widget-based, web-and-social mashup and user experience platform" > [..] > > While definitely a good description for the scope, I would still like to > propose a very minor but possible important change, like this: > > "a widgets, web-and-social mashup and user experience platform"
I believe widget-based would be more inclusive than 'widget' Widget *might* imply W3C widget. > > The reason for this slight change is that saying "a widget-based, [...]" > might be interpreted as if Rave at least assumes/requires widgets to be > used. > As a heavy user of Rave, we count on it supporting Widgets. Removing Widget from the scope would narrow the scope of the project and be a limiter of our future use of the platform. It might be better to be more specific that on the intent of widgets are optional. Sorry I don't have better wording...it is a suggestion if someone was so inclined. > I *think* (but this really is about semantics and grammar, in a non-native > language for me), my proposed change makes it more optional to use widgets, > as just one possible feature of the platform. > > IMO 'a web-and-social mashup and user experience platform' (thus without > using/requiring widgets) also very much fits the bill for Rave. > perhaps a change of the clause 'web-and-social mashup and user experience platform' to 'web-and-social mashup user experience platform' The 'and' never did much for me but I'm an engineer not an English major. > WDYT? > > Regards, Ate > >> Once we have an agreed upon resolution, we can call a community VOTE for >> Graduation and proceed with the process. >> >> Let's get ready to graduate! >> >> -Matt >> >> [1] : >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12514364/graduation_resolution.txt >> >> >
