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One interface to find all group contributors and in IPR bind them
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IPR bot should support the 45-day grace period #268

Open OrKoN opened 2 months ago

OrKoN commented 2 months ago

As suggested in https://github.com/w3c/process/issues/672#issuecomment-1311212063, the IPR bot should allow to commit changes within the 45-day grace period according to the process.

Context: the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group got re-chartered and while organizations are re-joining, it is not possible to land pre-existing changes https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/pull/729

dontcallmedom commented 2 months ago

this was considered before, but my reading of the Process document didn't agree with the notion that the grace period applies to substantive contributions (which a further comment in the issue you mentioned seems to confirm).

With that said, for the case of https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/pull/729, since the substantive part of the contribution was made prior to the group's renewal, I think it should be fine to ignore the IPR bot error and merge the PR (possibly documenting the reasoning on the issue)

jyasskin commented 2 months ago

Are you saying we need to get the Process changed in order to get the IPR bot changed? If so, I'll go back to the Process group

dontcallmedom commented 1 month ago

The IPR bot aims to follow what the Process and the Patent Policy entail; it could be that my reading is wrong (if so the IPR bot should be fixed); but if it's not, then indeed this would need the Process / Patent Policy to be changed.