On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 20:58 Goffi, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le dimanche 15 décembre 2024, 15:57:13 heure normale d’Europe centrale
> Dave Cridland a écrit :
> > Hey hey,
> >
> > Boring incoming:
> >
> > https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/1407
> >
> > This is draft to avoid the XSF Board accidentally approving it before the
> > community has had a chance to discuss.
> >
> > The main change is the paragraph added in Section 6 (Discussion Process),
> > covering changes to the XEP during Experimental:
> >
> > The XEP author incorporates the feedback by creating source control
> patches
> > > (such as Pull Requests), in line with the preferred method in
> &xep0143;.
> > > Direct changes to an Experimental XEP, such as a contributor providing
> a
> > > patch (or Pull Request on GitHub), are still the responsibility of the
> XEP
> > > author, and are only applied if the XEP author agrees. If a XEP has
> > > multiple authors, while agreement is sought from all authors, only
> those
> > > opinions from responsive authors are considered. If the Approving Body
> > > feels that the XEP author is not responsive, another author may be
> added
> > > unilaterally by the Approving Body.
> >
> >
> > This is trying to do two things:
> >
> > 1) Document the existing practice that the XMPP Council has followed,
> > whereby changes to Experimental XEPs need "agreement" (PR approval, or
> > similar) from the XEP Author.
> >
> > 2) Document the existing practice that the XMPP Council has followed.
> > whereby if a XEP Author isn't responsive (ie, doesn't respond to emails,
> > etc) the XMPP Council can add a new XEP Author.
> >
> > 3) Document the *new practice* that if a contribution isn't a PR, it's
> the
> > XEP Author who is responsible to turn it into one.
> >
> > The rest of the changes surface and restate existing process/policy/URLs
> > and aren't that interesting (well, even less interesting).
> >
> > There is one additional possible process deviation we should document (or
> > call the Process Police out, or something). Submission of a XEP, as per
> > XEP-0143, occurs via email tot he Editor. Is this really still the case?
> Or
> > are these now by PR? That'll need changing in XEP-0143, which I'm happy
> to
> > do if that's the case. It'd be nice to have a non-PR variant of the
> process
> > (post here?)
> >
> > Dave.
> >
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thank you for taking care of this.
> For the record, experimental XEPs have already been changed without author
> agreement, AFAIK mostly for minor stuff such as typos. It should probably
> be written somewhere.
>

Good point - I'll sprinkle the term "non-editorial" about.



> Best,
> Goffi
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