Shelley Powers wrote:
Sam Ruby wrote:
So, for now, I would like to reserve public-html for discussions of
the form of "hey Charles (or Ian): can you update your change
proposal
to include 'x'" or "hey Chairs: I'm not happy with either change
proposal, and I would like to produce a third one, can I have n days
in order to prepare it?"
This is counter to your Decision process, which includes a time of
discussion about the proposals. And I don't remember that the
discussion
had to take this specific format.
Are you co-chairs changing the Decision process? Again?
This is fine, if you apply the same practices for ALL discussions, and
for all participants.
I haven't discussed Sam's request with him in detail, but I do not see
it as change in process. Rather, we are continuing our policy of
moderating the list to try to keep it civil and livable. We
occasionally do that by asking posters to occasionally take some time
out, or take particular discussions elsewhere, if a thread appears to
be going off the rails. Here are some recent examples from me:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0203.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0143.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/1221.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0901.html
In all these cases I asked people to hold off on their posting, or
only post if they had new information to add. The goal here is to keep
the list from being bogged down by long threads that don't seem to be
producing good results.
Reviewing the ISSUE-30 thread, upon reviewing it, it seems to me that
both you and Tab got a little overheated. I have to admit that in
retrospect, I am not sure my posts on the thread were very helpful
either. So it seems like a good idea to take the discussion off the
list for a bit and see if we can come back with some constructive input.
Reards,
Maciej
