If I am the only one that wants to put in a formal objection here, then I'll let it go and go with whatever everyone else think we should do.
/ Jonas On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:22 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 2015-09-08 23:25 -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Tantek Çelik <tan...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: >> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> >> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 9:59 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: >> >> > The W3C is proposing revised charters for: >> >> > >> >> > Web Platform Working Group: >> >> > http://www.w3.org/2015/07/web-platform-wg.html >> >> > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2015Jul/0020.html >> > >> > >> > tl;dr I think we should vote to approve these charters with changes >> > requested (but not required), based on the input in this thread to date. >> >> I absolutely think that we should only vote to approve these charters >> if they remove merging the WebApps and HTML WGs. > > My one other thought here is that even if we formally object to the > merging of the groups, I don't think we're likely to be able to win > that argument at this stage. Right now they've found chairs for the > combined group, and I'm not aware of anyone else objecting to it. > > Part of the motivation for merging the groups was that nobody seemed > to have any high-priority work to go in the HTML working group. > There are a bunch of things people want to happen with existing > HTML, but nobody seemed ready to step up to do any of it. This > means that there didn't seem to be a good motivation for chartering > a new HTML working group on its own. This also means that even if > we objected to the merger, there wouldn't be a good alternative to > the merger. > > I think it's worth expressing concern about the possibility that > this will mess up the existing WebApps community. And if bad things > happen, we should raise them quickly and at a high level. > > -David > > -- > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > What I was walling in or walling out, > And to whom I was like to give offense. > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
