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Council: Who are the "deciders"? #173

Open plehegar opened 1 year ago

plehegar commented 1 year ago

[[ This report is then sent to the W3C Council, to the deciders, and to the objectors. The Council, like the Team before it, may try to find a consensus path forward. Otherwise, the W3C Council uses input from the report, the deciders, and objectors to either overrule the objection (in which case the original decision is in force), or to sustain the objection (in which case the original decision is vacated). ]] https://www.w3.org/Guide/council/council.html

It is not clear who the Deciders are (separate from the council). Is it different for different types of FOs. Perhaps Team for charters and the WG for WG decisions? Or just team/chairs for WG decisions?

(from @astearns)

cc @frivoal

plehegar commented 1 year ago

it seems awkward to me to use the term "decider" when the Council itself is meant to make the decision.

frivoal commented 1 year ago

The intended meaning is that, given that a Formal Objection is against a decision, "the deciders" are whoever made or proposed the decision that is being objected to. If that meaning isn't obvious, rephrasing is certainly welcome.

Perhaps Team for charters and the WG for WG decisions? Or just team/chairs for WG decisions?

Yes. WG for group decisions, chair for chair decisions, Team for Team decisions (including proposed charters)…

ylafon commented 1 year ago

One option would be to use "requesters", or just define "deciders" as Florian did above in plain text

plehegar commented 1 year ago

One option would be to use "requesters", or just define "deciders" as Florian did above in plain text

Adding the definition seems good enough to me.

astearns commented 1 year ago

The definition could go in the paragraph above. This part

it is always better if there can be a consensus between the group that made the original decision and the objector

could change to something like:

it is always better if there can be a consensus between the group that made the original decision and the objectors (we will use ‘deciders’ and ‘objectors’ to refer to these groups from this point)