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Switch [spec] authors to "editors" in the Purpose section. #142
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I'd like to offer two suggestions.
I believe the EWP Statement should be intended for either:
- any member of the standards development community, or
- any member of the W3C community.
I prefer the broader scope of the first option.
I believe the broader perspective to applying the EWP to practice beyond direct contributions to charters, specifications, or similar documents is more inclusive. It should cover anyone working on a technical or community report within W3C [1]. It also indirectly supports cases where incubation occurs outside the W3C space, making the Statement available to everyone, and so fostering a shared vision for improving the web.
[1] I've created a #143 to clarify that the Statement applies to all W3C technical or community reports, updates to those reports, and new charters.
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This is a statement of the ethical principles of the W3C community. | |||
Spec developers, authors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. | |||
Spec developers, editors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. |
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Spec developers, editors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. | |
Any member of the standards development community can use it to guide their thinking. |
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### Purpose {#purpose} | |||
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This is a statement of the ethical principles of the W3C community. | |||
Spec developers, authors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. | |||
Spec developers, editors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. |
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Spec developers, editors, and reviewers can use it to guide their thinking. | |
Any member of the W3C community can use it to guide their thinking. |
+1 to Sarven's comment in general, but I think that might take this beyond an editorial change, which means we couldn't fix it in the Statement without AC review. I'd like to make the translation-aiding editorial corrections first, and then start on the next version. |
This is meant to fix #141. Elsewhere we use "authors" to refer to website authors, but that doesn't fit between spec developers and (presumably) spec reviewers.
Another option might be to remove this list item entirely: editors are either meant to apply the decisions of their working groups without needing to check the EWP, or they're acting as spec developers.
cc/ @lianqi