Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:51:41 +0100 Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > Council had a chat yesterday about how much review XEPs generally get > outside those last-minute reviews required by Council at advancement > points, and we generally agree that what happens is often > insufficient; in an ideal world Council reviews for Draft, for > example, shouldn’t turn up issues because people will have reviewed, > discussed and fixed up the XEPs before they reach Last Call. > > So, we’re going to do three things > > 1) Ask that people please try to review/discuss XEPs so that they’re > adequately covered. It’s especially in author’s interests, if they > want their XEPs advanced, to try to get them reviewed widely so > they’re not going through painful periods with (the quite busy) > Council being the only people reviewing things (at the last minute). > The benefit of this is obvious. > > 2) We’ve asked the Editors to have requests for Last Calls happen via > the standards@ list, and for them to include a short justification > writeup - who is known to implement it, whether it’s the latest > version, interop status, why it’s important, why there aren’t more > changes expected to be needed in the future, etc. The benefit of this > is (at least) twofold - one it provides context for Council, and two > we hope it will spark more discussion and trigger more review. > > 3) Before Council vote on ProtoXEPs we’re going to ask that a similar > summary be sent to standards@ by the authors explaining why the XEP > is important, why any choices were made as they were, whether it’s > implemented, etc. The benefits here are, we hope, similar to those > for (2), above. > > Hopefully this’ll cause wider review and discussion of XEPs, and > improve the quality. If people have further ideas on improving the > quality of XEP review, please share them. > > /K I'm more concerned about XEP questions which do not get answers from the authors. I recently posted 2 such questions. I believe both of them were reasonable enough, but got no answers. If the authors don't reply, the whole "discussion stuff" makes no sense.
