I think that the whole idea of making compliance suites as a xep is flawed
and creates unnecessary bureaucracy for bureaucracy sake.

It could have been just a page on xmpp.org website, listing XEPs that
council currently consideres part of a compliance suites. No bureaucracy,
no need to update them every year, win-win for everyone.

If someone won't be happy with just a current list, well, add versions to
it, in the simplest way possible.

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, 20:41 Severino Ferrer de la Peñita, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sunday, March 3, 2019 3:41:44 PM CET Sam Whited wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, at 13:51, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > > Who are you arguing *with*?
> >
> > The council and new authors. Also specifically the "Pot, kettle, etc."
> > statement, if you meant my last email.
> >
> > > I agree it's ridiculous, but I also note that the number of comments
> > > on the 2019 one is considerably below 20, and possibly less than 15,
> > > depending on how one counts. The number of people involved in the
> > > discussion outside Council is less than 5 (and I'm including your
> > > comments here, which are simply that we should have some Compliance
> > > Suites).
> >
> > Then even if we don't think the new ones are ready, let's at least
> > deprecate the old ones so we don't look like we're not doing our jobs
> > and no one is working on this. The external perception here isn't great.
> >
> > The next step would then be to try and figure out why the new ones
> > aren't ready. I think there are two important things to realize here: 1.
> > most of the arguments have already been had in previous years suites and
> > the new ones are similar enough that there aren't likely to be lots of
> > new comments, and 2. they don't have to be perfect because we'll get
> > another chance next year. These are guidelines that can be fluid, they
> > can even have mistakes without it being the end of the world (though of
> > course we should try to minimize these, but not at the cost of not
> > having any published).
> >
> > > If the community isn't interested in working on these, I'm not sure
> > > how we advance them faster.
> >
> > If the 2019 suites were finalized right now and the 2020 suites were
> > already being worked on, we'd have plenty of time for comments. This is
> > the only way I see the compliance suites working, and what I was trying
> > to do with previous years.
> >
> > When it comes down to it though, I don't particularly care how the
> > situation is resolved, rename the 2018 suites to 2019, just make sure we
> > have something with a current date on it which is the only way we're
> > going to be able to get people to take the compliance suites seriously
> > and not end up in a situation like we had before we picked them up again
> > where the 2012 suites (or somewhere around there) were the latest ones.
> >
> > —Sam
>
> I agree with Sam, current situation is not very good marketing for XMPP.
> How I see it, we should be focusing on discussing next year's instead.
> If there is not enough people engaging with compliance suites I trust
> Council
> to figure out a solution. Sam mentioned pretty valid ways of solving the
> problem I think.
>
> Seve.
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