On 3/14/19 5:05 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 21:46, Ralph Meijer <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 13/03/2019 22.16, Kevin Smith wrote: > > > > > >> On 13 Mar 2019, at 17:37, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> I can help, but I would not object to adding a more active co-author > >> (preferably an implementor of the spec). > > > > Do you want to request a last call? Under the new rules Council > aren’t allowed to trigger an LC any more unless either the authors > request it or the authors abandon the XEP. > > Kev, > > I think this is a very narrow reading of the new text, and I don't > agree > that this says the Approving Body cannot issue (=/= trigger) a Last > Call, via the Editor, if it so sees fit. What the changed text is meant > to ensure is that once a Last Call is issued, there's somebody, either > an author or document shepherd, to process feedback of that Last Call > and during the approval process of the Approving Body. And that there's > a defined way to propose advancement by authors, or others in case it > appears that the authors are no longer interested in such advancement. > > If you think this new wording suggests that the Approving Body (in this > case Council) is no longer in full control of the process, then please > propose changes so this can be rectified. > > > I think the way that XEP-0001 is currently written suggests that if the > Council triggered a Last Call without the author(s) involved, the > Author(s) could complain on the grounds that we have not followed > XEP-0001 as written.
Has this ever happened or is it purely hypothetical? > Since we do not have a complaints procedure, what happens then is > anyone's guess. (I think they need to complain to the Board, and if that > fails to achieve a resolution, to the Members - but that's a suggestion > and is in no way supported by any of our process documents). It seems to me that the Board is the appropriate escalation path, although raising an issue among the membership would also work. Personally I don't see the need for every possible eventuality to be captured in process documents... Peter _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
