Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-26 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Waldemar Horwat wrote: Brendan Eich wrote: Thanks for understanding. Now with that in mind, please re-read Jeff's post and mine. We are talking about working intensively in the next three months on both specs and implementation. Now is the time to step up.

RE: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-26 Thread Lars Hansen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Eich Sent: 26. februar 2008 09:49 To: Waldemar Horwat; Maciej Stachowiak Cc: Graydon Hoare; es4-discuss@mozilla.org es4-discuss Subject: Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Geoffrey Garen
Is there a published specification that all these implementors will be using? Thanks, Geoff On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: As Jeff has laid out, with helpful comments from Michael O'Brien, Lars, and Graydon, we are entering a phase of ES4 work where practical

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Feb 21, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Geoffrey Garen wrote: Is there a published specification that all these implementors will be using? To expand a bit on Geoff's comment: I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. But right now, as far as I can tell, there

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: To expand a bit on Geoff's comment: I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. Great! Though please keep in mind a point in the remainder of your comments: WebKit (and Rhino) are operating from a somewhat newcomer perspective,

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Brendan Eich wrote: In contrast, with CSS, Web API or HTML WG specifications, I can point engineers to a spec that is more or less accurate for a given feature and they only have to ask questions about the few missing details. And then Hixie goes and rewrites it.

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Michael O'Brien wrote: As a solution: I think we need an intermediate step. Not a spec, but some detailed design notes. Lar's document was a good overview, but drill down on exactly how the mechanisms are meant to work would be very helpful to broaden the base of implementations. Some

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Geoffrey Garen
I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. But right now, as far as I can tell, there isn't a written record for any of ES4's features that I could point an engineer to and say implement this. There's certainly no such spec, or you would be a passive

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Geoffrey Garen wrote: I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. But right now, as far as I can tell, there isn't a written record for any of ES4's features that I could point an engineer to and say implement this. There's

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Robert Sayre
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Geoffrey Garen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, since there is no spec -- at least, not one I can lay my hands on -- I'll have to wait until the people in the know finish their implementations What changes would you like to see in the process? What would

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: On Feb 21, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. But right now, as far as I can tell, there isn't a written record for any of ES4's features that I could

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Graydon Hoare wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: To expand a bit on Geoff's comment: I'd like Apple and the WebKit project to get involved with ES4 implementation. Great! Though please keep in mind a point in the remainder of your comments: WebKit (and

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I don't think the sets are disjoint, but they are not identical either. Agreed. I am trying to arrive at an understanding of which camp Apple aspires to (designer, implementor or both) and in particular how you wish to enact that role. Any Rhino hackers (or other

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: What I am asking is this: for each proposal where you'd like early implementations, before implementation commences please write down enough information about that proposal in some reasonably understandable form to represent the current shared understanding of the

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Feb 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Graydon Hoare wrote: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I don't think the sets are disjoint, but they are not identical either. Agreed. I am trying to arrive at an understanding of which camp Apple aspires to (designer, implementor or both) and in particular how

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Graydon Hoare wrote: So presenting yourself as a participant with neither of those supports in place, you're sort of walking into a room, kicking the legs out from under a table and asking why it's suddenly

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: We're unlikely to have much interest in working on implementing the RI. Ok. I'm sorry to hear that, but I understand. As for reading the RI, it seems a lot harder to understand than specs written in prose. As far as I can tell, only people who have coded

Re: ES4 implementation process, teams, and meetings

2008-02-21 Thread Brendan Eich
On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: We'd like to be active participant. However, it seems like as newcomers/outsiders, we do not have enough information available to participate in early implementation. Neither does