Re: [hybi] Issue tracker

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Thu, 13 May 2010 01:36 UTC

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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 01:36:34 +0000
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
To: Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: [hybi] Issue tracker
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On Wed, 12 May 2010, Salvatore Loreto wrote:
>
> let me clarify about how we intend to work
> 
> 1) Even if anyone is welcome to suggest issues,
>    only the chairs are allowed to create a new issues!
> 
> 2) We discuss the issues on the list for a while
> 
> 3)  Issues related to WG documents will be initially
>     assigned to one of the authors ( mainly because the tool allows to enter
>     only one assignee ).
> 
> 4) the assignee (or the WG document authors) come up with a form of words that
>    they think matches the consensus and attach a diff to the trac
> 
> 5) if there is a consensus on the text, the author will add it to the WG
> document
>    and the issues will be closed.
>    if there is no consensus on the text go back to 4)

That sounds like a huge amount of overhead. Here are the issues that I'm 
currently aware of for Web Sockets:

   http://www.whatwg.org/issues/#websocket

Do I need to send an e-mail for each one of these to raise it as an issue? 
Doing so would likely take us ten times more time than just going ahead 
and fixing the problems would.

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