On 1/18/18 8:05 AM, Sam Whited wrote:
> In that case I am retracting the compliance suites, we'll never get anything 
> useful out of these if people keep trying to stall and we can't ever move on 
> without trying to make them absolutely perfect and have every little thing 
> that every person wants.
> 
> If someone else wants to start working on them, be my guest, but please do 
> not simply push through the 2018 ones and then leave them forever, this 
> doesn't need to just have this PR merged and then be published, it needs 
> someone who is willing to sheperd them through the process every year (or 
> possibly the same ones for multiple years since the goal posts keep moving).

Although I shan't address the Last Call / pull request back-and-forth
because I haven't tracked it, in general the idea behind the compliance
suites was that we'd update them every year. Therefore it didn't matter
all that much if the suites for Year X weren't "perfect" (whatever that
means) because in Year X+1 we could update the recommendations again to
incorporate our latest learnings.

As Sam says, this means we need someone to put forward a revised suite
every year and shepherd it through the process. In olden days I did
this, and more recently Sam volunteered. IMHO treating the intrepid
volunteer well is especially important in this case, because it's a
thankless task and any oversights can be easily fixed the next year. I'm
not saying we should override any processes defined in XEP-0001, but I
sense that handing of this relatively unimportant XEP has resulted in
hard feelings all around, which is unfortunate and was probably avoidable.

Just my two cents.

Peter

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