Streams General issue

[torgo]

As minuted at TPAC 2015 wrap-up session: https://pad.w3ctag.org/p/30-10-2015-minutes.md

[torgo]

discussed 11-11 – we need to get someone like @domenic and Chris Wilson on the same call... F2F time would be good. Analysis document needed. "Streams in the Web" ...

[travisleithead]

We are looking for a document that clearly defines the different high-level categories of streams: byte streams, timed streams, object streams. We want the document to clearly define some terminology that can be reused among various folks talking about streams (e.g., WebRTC media streams, etc.), and potential conversion patterns between each type of stream (since they can be converted and have specific conversion paradigms). This would help frame some of the existing streams conversations.

[torgo]

Taken up at London F2f

[travisleithead]

Taking a look at : https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/

[travisleithead]

The above-mentioned document can start with a spec-review of the Streams spec...

[torgo]

Taken up at Stockholm f2f. Yes we will produce something. @ylafon will start a document and we will work on this and review at a TPAC. See minutes from day 3 and whiteboard pics:

[travisleithead]

Goal:

• Get the various streams straightened out
• understand the use cases
• Write it all down (or at least the good parts) into our Design guidelines.

[torgo]

Agreed we make a start on this. @travisleithead @slightlyoff @cynthia to make a start at a break-out session on Thursday.

[travisleithead]

Additional relevant meeting minutes: https://pad.w3ctag.org/p/2016-07-30

[travisleithead]

OK, new plan:

Per my previous comment, one of the main goals of this work is to produce text to go into the design-guidelines. We will be moving the bulk of this issue from the design-reviews repo into w3ctag/design-principles#86.

The other part of this work was to do archiology to existing parts of the web platform that aren't using streams but should be. @cynthia will be drafting a blog post, where we will try to crowdsource this question (along with Promises).

[travisleithead]

And now, thank you for flying TAG..