I do not dislike publishing the Compliance Suite content as part of the
website. It will make things more clear. I do not believe, however, that
the process of choosing what goes on that page is going to be faster, as
compared to doing this as a XEP. If anything, for a XEP, we have a process.

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 11:14, Severino Ferrer de la Peñita <s...@delape.net>
wrote:

> On Monday, March 4, 2019 5:42:24 AM CET Ненахов Андрей wrote:
> > I think that the whole idea of making compliance suites as a xep is
> flawed
> > and creates unnecessary bureaucracy for bureaucracy sake.
> >
> > It could have been just a page on xmpp.org website, listing XEPs that
> > council currently consideres part of a compliance suites. No bureaucracy,
> > no need to update them every year, win-win for everyone.
> >
> > If someone won't be happy with just a current list, well, add versions to
> > it, in the simplest way possible.
> >
> > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, 20:41 Severino Ferrer de la Peñita, <s...@delape.net
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Sunday, March 3, 2019 3:41:44 PM CET Sam Whited wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, at 13:51, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > > > > Who are you arguing *with*?
> > > >
> > > > The council and new authors. Also specifically the "Pot, kettle,
> etc."
> > > > statement, if you meant my last email.
> > > >
> > > > > I agree it's ridiculous, but I also note that the number of
> comments
> > > > > on the 2019 one is considerably below 20, and possibly less than
> 15,
> > > > > depending on how one counts. The number of people involved in the
> > > > > discussion outside Council is less than 5 (and I'm including your
> > > > > comments here, which are simply that we should have some Compliance
> > > > > Suites).
> > > >
> > > > Then even if we don't think the new ones are ready, let's at least
> > > > deprecate the old ones so we don't look like we're not doing our jobs
> > > > and no one is working on this. The external perception here isn't
> great.
> > > >
> > > > The next step would then be to try and figure out why the new ones
> > > > aren't ready. I think there are two important things to realize
> here: 1.
> > > > most of the arguments have already been had in previous years suites
> and
> > > > the new ones are similar enough that there aren't likely to be lots
> of
> > > > new comments, and 2. they don't have to be perfect because we'll get
> > > > another chance next year. These are guidelines that can be fluid,
> they
> > > > can even have mistakes without it being the end of the world (though
> of
> > > > course we should try to minimize these, but not at the cost of not
> > > > having any published).
> > > >
> > > > > If the community isn't interested in working on these, I'm not sure
> > > > > how we advance them faster.
> > > >
> > > > If the 2019 suites were finalized right now and the 2020 suites were
> > > > already being worked on, we'd have plenty of time for comments. This
> is
> > > > the only way I see the compliance suites working, and what I was
> trying
> > > > to do with previous years.
> > > >
> > > > When it comes down to it though, I don't particularly care how the
> > > > situation is resolved, rename the 2018 suites to 2019, just make
> sure we
> > > > have something with a current date on it which is the only way we're
> > > > going to be able to get people to take the compliance suites
> seriously
> > > > and not end up in a situation like we had before we picked them up
> again
> > > > where the 2012 suites (or somewhere around there) were the latest
> ones.
> > > >
> > > > —Sam
> > >
> > > I agree with Sam, current situation is not very good marketing for
> XMPP.
> > > How I see it, we should be focusing on discussing next year's instead.
> > > If there is not enough people engaging with compliance suites I trust
> > > Council
> > > to figure out a solution. Sam mentioned pretty valid ways of solving
> the
> > > problem I think.
> > >
> > > Seve.
>
> I've been asked this a couple of times as well, why the compliance suite
> is
> not a page at xmpp.org with the current situation instead of a XEP.
> People usually assume XEPs are protocol specifications to be implemented.
>
> Seve.
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