- From: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:18:24 -0400
- To: "public-swicg@w3c.org" <public-swicg@w3c.org>
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I added an issue to the potential-charters repository with a proposal for managing scope for the WG: https://github.com/swicg/potential-charters/issues/83 I think we should consider /all/ the Social Web Working Group recommendations as in-scope for the new WG, but let the new WG set its own schedule and prioritisation for maintaining those documents. I think this would balance the need to maintain all the existing documents on the one hand against the limited time and attention of the working group on the other. As an example of how this could work (and /*not a proposal for an actual work schedule, please do not at me*/), imagine that, almost immediately, the workgroup starts with these document revisions: * Activity Streams 2.1 (core and vocabulary) - incorporate errata, improve clarity * ActivityPub 1.1 - incorporate errata, expand media upload, define replies maintenance, etc. As this work winds down, and these documents move into the final stages of recommendation, the WG might take on more work: * WebSub 1.1 - errata and clarifications * LOLA 1.0 - define LOLA (Again, this is just an example schedule. I don't know if WebSub needs a 1.1 update or if that's the highest priority change.) As these were completed and moved into PR and TR stage, the group might then take on additional streams of work: * Activity Streams 2.2 (vocabulary) - expand vocabulary with new terms * ActivityPub E2EE Messaging - example of new functionality and new document * Micropub 1.1 - errata In this example, the WG is keeping a healthy and productive 2-3 parallel document pace, but is still covering multiple documents over the period. The WG could set its own heuristics for initiating new work, such as having N editors for each active document; having N chairs per active document workstream; staging work initiated in the SocialCG; community and implementer demand; and so on. I think that as a more mature WG doing iterative updates to existing work, with occasional extensions to that work, it would not be under the same time pressure as the previous Social Web WG was. If we want, we can set more healthy and realistic expectations for deliverables, and still take responsibility for all the docs published by the previous Social Web WG. Evan
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