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"The W3C Council" should often be "A W3C Council" #710

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TallTed opened this issue Feb 6, 2023 · 1 comment
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"The W3C Council" should often be "A W3C Council" #710

TallTed opened this issue Feb 6, 2023 · 1 comment
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TallTed commented Feb 6, 2023

Originally posted by @TallTed in #702 (comment)

Given that there may be multiple W3C Councils operating at any given moment, there are a number of occurrences of the W3C Council which should be replaced by a W3C Council.
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Speak of *a* Council, not *the* Council
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Multiple instances of the Council can exist at the same time, so it
seems better to avoid speaking of "the Council" in general, unless
context makes it clear which specific Council we are talking about.

See w3c#710
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The Revising W3C Process CG just discussed "The W3C Council" should often be "A W3C Council", and agreed to the following:

  • RESOLVED: Merge PR #719
The full IRC log of that discussion <fantasai> florian: Ted correctly pointed out that we talk about "the Council", but there can be multiple councils, so should be more correct to talk about "a Council" in many cases
<fantasai> ... PR attempts to fix this, has some review including from Ted
<fantasai> -> https://github.com//issues/720
<joshco_> +q
<plh> ack josh
<fantasai> s/-> https://github.com//issues/720//
<fantasai> -> https://github.com//issues/719
<fantasai> florian: [explains the PR]
<fantasai> joshco_: I thought there was a standing council
<fantasai> florian: no, all councils are temporary, and there might be multiple existing in parallel
<fantasai> florian: anyway, that's the PR. If there's some debate, let's debate in GH, but otherwise that's it
<fantasai> plh: Any objection to merge this PR?
<fantasai> RESOLVED: Merge PR #719
<fantasai> [we interrupt this regularly-scheduled program to make a round of introductions for JenStrickland who just joined]

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Speak of *a* Council, not *the* Council (#719)
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Multiple instances of the Council can exist at the same time, so it
seems better to avoid speaking of "the Council" in general, unless
context makes it clear which specific Council we are talking about.

See #710

Co-authored-by: Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>
Co-authored-by: Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
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