New provisions for what Core WG vs other WGs do #3894
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Example new working groups and purviews:
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I agree with this generally.
I would still like to see some brief statement about conflict resolution and/or escalation procedures for when there is a contribution to subsystems under purview of multiple working groups, or working groups propose contributions that are in conflict on a technical or conceptual level.
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| organizations, physical distance, timezones, and engagement. It has | ||
| also grown large in scope. This has resulted in strain on maintainers | ||
| to regularly keep up with contributions while ensuring quality and | ||
| important global policies like safety and security. It has also | ||
| resulted in contributors' work going unaddressed for long periods of | ||
| time. |
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I think this text is helpful in this PR description, but the goal is for this to become incorrect, which makes it awkward to add to the README. I think either we don't need it or it could be phrased as what we want to avoid, rather than what is currently happening.
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| However, working groups are encouraged to avoid consensus-based | ||
| decision making as quickly as possible and establish appropriate |
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I'm not sure what this is supposed to imply exactly. WGs are supposed to not converge to a consensus?
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| its own rules for deciding how to accept contributions as well as how | ||
| to establish and disband working groups. | ||
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| The Core Working Group's duties are: |
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Specifying these here is in conflict with the core WG charter.
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OK, you're right. I'll move these to doc/wg/core/README.md
@lschuermann, done. I think I addressed @bradjc's comments as well. |
Pull Request Overview
This pull request codifies the high-level responsibilities of the Core
WG relative to other working groups as originally proposed
here
and discussed on the Core WG 2024-03-01.
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