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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] W3C public lists (was Re: The Power of Groves)
 At 08:26 PM 2/8/00 -0500, Michael Champion wrote:> >Forgive my monumental naivete, but are the Groves advocates just so totally >cynical about the W3C process that they don't think it's worthwhile to raise >points such as the one Eliot Kimber makes to the InfoSet people, do you do >so privately and get the same non-response that Nils seems to have gotten, >do you not care what the InfoSet WG recommends, or what? I probably shouldn't get this started, but I've never received an official reply to any specific comments I've posted regarding W3C specs from anyone involved in their development. (Mostly I haven't even gotten unofficial replies.) General comments and questions do get answered, notably on www-html and www-style, but www-style is the only W3C list where I've ever had much luck getting real and public replies from participants in the development process. (www-style is also the liveliest community I've found in these lists.) Maybe it's just that I spent too much time on XLink, where some of my comments may have had an effect, though without anyone ever letting me know that. That list mysteriously woke up in September of last year, long after I'd stopped paying attention to it because of its apparent /dev/null tendencies. I haven't participated on the Infoset list, and it does appear to have a few more 'real' replies to comments on it than some of the other lists I've participated on. (I've heard good and bad about www-dom as well.) Nils hasn't received any on-list replies, however, from what I can see in the archives. I can't say (as an outsider) that I've never seen much evidence that these mailing lists are taken especially seriously as a whole. The traffic that seems to be taken most seriously is W3C insiders talking on the public lists for whatever purpose. Replying publicly to such messages on a regular basis might make people feel that they could make a difference by posting to such lists, and generate a lot more traffic than currently exists. To join the fun, see the list of public W3C lists at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ Instructions for joining are at: http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request (You don't have to subscribe to post.) Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com 
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