I'd like to be involved.  I also agree that the less overhead with getting 
something out there the
better.  It's also nice to have the WiAB as the RI of the spec, and both 
together.

/Ian

On 11/20/2010 05:24 PM, Soren Lassen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I agree that spec and implementation should be "independent" eventually.
>> There are two more practical things worth considering IMHO:
>> a) If specs are not part of the Apache project, we need to define our own
>> governance rules or copy them which will cost time and effort
>> b) There is a risk that specs and implementation differ too much because the
>> communities are too disjoint.
>> From a practical perspective I would like to keep the specs together with
>> WiaB for some time. Right now this will save us some additional overhead and
>> it keeps the community together. WiaB could decide to check every 6 months
>> whether time has come to spin off the specs in their own project.
> 
> +1
> 
> I would like be involved in a future protocol working group but I
> prefer if we can save some bureaucracy right now by taking a free ride
> with a wave-in-a-box open source Apache incubator project to begin
> with.
> 
>> Finally, editing a spec in a Wiki is a no go. I would like to see a changes
>> list to understand what happens to the protocol specs.
> 
> Please take a look at the reStructuredText format
> (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) which we use for the
> federation, conversation, and waveid specs, hosted in the default
> mercurial repository:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/source/browse/#hg/spec
> 
> reStructuredText has the nice property that diffs are generally easy
> to read, which makes it work well with the mercurial and
> codereview.waveprotocol.org tools.
> 
>> Greetings
>> Torben
>>
>> 2010/11/20 Chris Harvey <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Keeping two sites: Wave Protocol and RI development makes sense to me.
>>> Count me in to the protocol working group
>>>
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