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"Expression of Support" should not be the only way to respond to a proposal for new W3C work #34

Closed danbri closed 2 years ago

danbri commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg-charter/issues/new/choose

This comes off as a kind of "lobbying the W3C AC" move, or like those awful UI patterns where you get asked to either "Opt in!" or "Ask me later", without a "No thanks" pathway...

pchampin commented 2 years ago

"Expression of Support" should not be the only way to respond to a proposal for new W3C work

What would be giving the impression that it is the only way to respond? Both the W3C Advisory Committee [1] and the community behind semantic-web@w3.org [2] were notified a little more than a month ago, and explicitly asked for feedback -- any kind of feedback. And we did not receive much, unfortunately.

Even now, the link you quote still gives access to two templates : one to express support, and one to raise any kind of issue (as you have noticed, obviously). So I think the comparison to UI anti-patterns is a little unfair.

[1] https://www.w3.org/mid/625538bd-0a1c-4d23-d249-f96f98eba324@w3.org [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2022Mar/0048.html

danbri commented 2 years ago

The only way specially advertised in this repo, I meant. It's clearly an approach based on building a case for new W3C work, and there's nothing wrong with that - but I still suggest "Expression of Support or Interest or Concern" would be more useful. It's always better to gather this stuff before a WG is chartered.

And yeah, I owe some rdf-star feedback through one channel or another!