Community Groups and Business Groups should be incorporated into the Process
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Description
Community and Business Groups live outside the main W3C Process today. That has resulted in a multitude of charters for CGs, particularly, that define their own processes and modus operandi. Unfortunately, as these start seeming more and more like the lite version of WGs, their processes can be uneven, and there is no way to officially raise that, object, or even officially ask for changes (as chairs are essentially BDFLs in CGs).
I think the time is right for establishing clear standards (ha!) for CGs/BGs - chairing, process, and oversight.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the W3C Process Document and reviewing how Community Groups and Business Groups are currently handled. Compare existing group charters and processes to identify common standards for chairing, process, oversight, and formal objections. Done would require an agreed, concrete proposal for incorporating those standards into the Process Document.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100