[Standards] Re: XEP-0001 Changes to reflect current practice wrt XEP Authors

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 22:12, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter(a)stpeter.im> wrote:

I think there's a third option, which is to move the responsibility for processing non-GitHub PRs onto the submitter, and have them find a volunteer to handle it each time (a Document Shepherd, additional Author, or whatever). I worry that if there's a body on the Editorial team who handles this very rare case, it'll likely mean that when it's needed, we've mostly forgotten who has this role, or they've drifted away, or whatever. Once submitted, it's the Author's responsibility to do the updates by PR as well, so this is a task for the lifetime of each XEP (like the Author, really). If a submitter cannot find anyone on the standards list or amongst the people they know willing to help handle this part of the Author role, then I think that suggests quite a bit about how much interest there is in the XEP. Furthermore, I think this is essentially a mild formalisation on what the existing de-facto process is; so absent a strong reason to chnage the existing process, I'd rather we document something that matches. (I'll make a PR against XEP-0143 with concrete text on Friday)