On 15 Nov 2008, at 19:32, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
Pascal Costanza writes:
TCR writes
I think a default initial period of six week is way too short. I'd suggest a period of six _months_ instead.
The original idea when we designed CDR was that documents are already publicly scrutinized elsewhere before they are submitted to CDR, so the 6 weeks were targeted at last-minute changes that typically arise in the last few weeks.
This is what I thought. Notice, however, that submitting a CDR has the follow effects
a) it's announced
so people are more likely to direct their attention to such a document.b) it's _officially_ announced
so people who want to implement documents into their implementation of choice, have some credited ressource to point implementators at.c) there is a public, and archived, discussion platform
Another possibility would be to introduce a new status, "Draft", which takes 6 months, and precedes the "Initial" status. This seems to make the process unnecessarily more complex, though.
Indeed, this would make the process more complicated.
I will try and see how an 'informal' approach works out, by suggesting a 6 month period to submitters in case their documents haven't been discussed before. Maybe that already resolves the issue. Let's see how that works.
Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback!
Pascal