On 17/01/2019 14.29, Georg Lukas wrote:
[..]
I agree with the idea of crowd-sourcing the review of Deferred XEPs, and
to allow anyone to propose them for LC, with the LC resulting in either
of:
- Rejected or Obsolete (we have consensus that this is a dead end)
- Experimental with new author (if somebody volunteers to move it forward)
- stay in Deferred, because the exact status can not be determined.
Just to make it clear, (the first part of) the current process is as
follows:
Before an Experimental XEP may be proposed to the Approving Body for
advancement to Draft (Standards Track XEPs) or Active (Historical,
Informational, and Procedural XEPs), the Approving Body must agree that the XEP
is ready to be considered for advancement. Once the Approving Body so agrees,
it shall instruct the XMPP Extensions Editor to (1) change the status of the
XEP from Experimental to Proposed and (2) issue a Last Call for open discussion
on the Standards list. [..]
This means that if the Approving Body does *not* agree the XEP is ready
to be considered for advancement, it stays Experimental, without a Last
Call. I think the same should hold for proposing advancement of Deferred
XEPs to Draft.
Of course a negative decision here will come with reasons. If there is
such interest, (new) authors can then pick up the XEP and have it move
from Deferred to Experimental by editing the XEP to address those
reasons for declining consideration.
The rest of the process after issuing Last Call then is the same as before.
XEP-0001 mentions that the XEP Author is expected to make changes during
this process, but I think that if it is determined that the original
author has abandoned it, the Approving Body could consider the person(s)
that proposed advancement to take on that role.
I just issued a PR [1] with changes to XEP-0001 to address the above.
[1] https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/744
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ralphm
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