On Monday 2015-01-12 13:55 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: > I'd prefer us to voice opposition in the REC transition > questionnaire. For reasons already stated in this thread, it's > probably not a good use of time to put effort into writing a long > essay for the reasons for opposition. Therefore, I suggest choosing > the opposition option on the form and just pasting the URL > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2014Aug/0028.html > in the free-form field. That the Formal Objection was overruled shows > that FOs are not an effective mechanism for dealing with dysfunction > at the W3C. I don't expect our response to make a difference when it > comes to longdesc transitioning to a REC, but I think we shouldn't > stop signaling to the W3C staff that the way longdesc was handled (not > just the FO but also the way the issue was allowed to poison the HTML > WG to the point that productive contributors pretty much left the > non-Task Force parts of the WG) is not OK--especially when such > signaling is as easy as choosing an option on a form.
Agreed; this is what I ended up doing. (I don't plan to put much energy into backing up the formal objection, but I agree it's good to have it on the record.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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