Re: Identifying "Test Spec Editors"; deadline Nov 11

2011-11-13 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:09:15 +0100, Arthur Barstow   
wrote:



On 11/11/11 7:53 PM, ext Adrian Bateman wrote:

On Friday, November 04, 2011 4:59 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote:

One of the topics discussed this week was to designate a "Test Spec
Editor(s)" for each of our specs.

We're supportive of this idea.


(BTW, the title of "Test Spec Editor" is a bit of a straw-man, so
proposals for other titles are also welcome.)
I wonder if Test Suite Facilitator (or similar) is a better title. We  
use "Facilitator"
in HTML WG and I think it may be more of a coordination role than a  
person that does
all the editing work of the test suite (that's how it seems to work in  
HTML at the

moment).


If anyone objects to "Test Facilitator", please speak up; otherwise, at  
the end of next week I will add that role to PubStatus' Testing column  
and issue some type of Call for Test Facilitators for our various test  
suites:


I positively support it, basically for the reasons Adrian outlined.

cheers

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Re: Identifying "Test Spec Editors"; deadline Nov 11

2011-11-12 Thread Arthur Barstow

On 11/11/11 7:53 PM, ext Adrian Bateman wrote:

On Friday, November 04, 2011 4:59 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote:

One of the topics discussed this week was to designate a "Test Spec
Editor(s)" for each of our specs.

We're supportive of this idea.


(BTW, the title of "Test Spec Editor" is a bit of a straw-man, so
proposals for other titles are also welcome.)

I wonder if Test Suite Facilitator (or similar) is a better title. We use 
"Facilitator"
in HTML WG and I think it may be more of a coordination role than a person that 
does
all the editing work of the test suite (that's how it seems to work in HTML at 
the
moment).


If anyone objects to "Test Facilitator", please speak up; otherwise, at 
the end of next week I will add that role to PubStatus' Testing column 
and issue some type of Call for Test Facilitators for our various test 
suites:


  http://w3c-test.org/webapps/

-AB





RE: Identifying "Test Spec Editors"; deadline Nov 11

2011-11-11 Thread Adrian Bateman
On Friday, November 04, 2011 4:59 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
> One of the topics discussed this week was to designate a "Test Spec
> Editor(s)" for each of our specs.

We're supportive of this idea.

> (BTW, the title of "Test Spec Editor" is a bit of a straw-man, so
> proposals for other titles are also welcome.)

I wonder if Test Suite Facilitator (or similar) is a better title. We use 
"Facilitator"
in HTML WG and I think it may be more of a coordination role than a person that 
does
all the editing work of the test suite (that's how it seems to work in HTML at 
the
moment).

Cheers,

Adrian.