w3c / w3c/process

"Candidate Recommendation" is no longer an accurate term

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Description

The term Candidate Recommendation accurately and literally describes the state of a technical report that is expected to become a Recommendation.

Process 2020 explicitly contemplates technical reports remaining Candidate Recommendation at perpetuity, but being regularly revised (as a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot or Candidate Recommendation Draft).

The term Candidate Recommendation hardly describes these specifications, which will never become Recommendations.

Suggest either:

  • selecting a different term to identify these technical reports that never become Recommendations; or
  • change the Recommendation criteria such that these technical reports are considered Recommendations.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the issue discussion and the Process 2020 provisions it references. Determine whether the terminology should change or whether the Recommendation criteria should change; the work is done when one approach is agreed and reflected consistently in the Process Document.

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html
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documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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5/5
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Over a week
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