Subject: [Rfced-future] Doc editor: Peter Saint-Andre

From: Eliot Lear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 08:42:42 +0100

Dear colleagues,

We have a volunteer as document editor for our work.  Peter Saint-Andre has graciously offered to take up the charge.  For those of you who don’t know Peter (I think most of you do), he is a former applications area director, the large contributor to the Jabber community, a long time IETFer, and the current chair of the RSOC.  Peter currently works for Mozilla.

Peter will be responsible for documenting in “code” the decisions that we have made and will make.  He will work with the chairs to make sure that the normative text he inserts is agreed by the working group, particularly the Big Stuff, like the approval process (WG, AB, etc), the role and name of the RS[EA], appeals, chair selection, etc.  He’ll be conservative about what he puts in in that context.

He’ll also handle the non-normative and editorial changes so that the document doesn’t come out reading like a camel (a horse designed by committee).

We’ll ask that Peter try to have a first draft out for our next interim that covers what we’ve already agreed, and that can be seen here <https://github.com/intarchboard/program-rfced-future/issues> in the tracker.

This is a big job.  I ask that you lend Peter your support and your sympathy as he takes on this rather large task.

Eliot