[wg/miniapps] Rechartering MiniApps Working Group

[xfq]

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

Charter Review

MiniApps Working Group Charter 2023

What kind of charter is this? Check the relevant box / remove irrelevant branches.

• Existing WG recharter - diff

Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, and security. Also add a "card" for this issue to the Strategy Funnel.

Communities suggested for outreach:

MiniApp vendors

Known or potential areas of concern:

• There are vendors interested in implementing, but no vendor has started to implement it yet. However, the WG has started discussing the testing plan, and third-party frameworks are also trying to convert standardized MiniApps into vendor-specific MiniApps.
• The TAG has concerns about the origin model and the packaging format, which are still in discussion and have not yet been fully resolved.
• Web App Manifest has internationalization issues that have not yet been resolved (like multiple natural language text fields share language/direction [I18N] manifest#968 ) and MiniApp Manifest depends on them.
• There may be overlaps between the components work in the MiniApps CG and the Open UI CG, and the MiniApps CG is discussing a methodology of reusing existing work as much as possible.

Where would charter proponents like to see issues raised? (this strategy funnel issue, a different github repo, email, ...)

https://github.com/w3c/miniapp/issues

Anything else we should think about as we review?

[ruoxiran]

no comments from APA.

[himorin]

No comment nor request from i18n

[plehegar]

No comment from PING

[svgeesus]

1. The Normative specifications section omits the Draft State and Adopted Draft items, and it is harder to find the Exclusion Draft etc because the markup has been lost. See the charter template
2. "Note: The actual production of some of the deliverables may follow a different timeline." :)
3. Success criteria is missing significant language and links, compared to the charter template. Please use the charter template wording here, then add any additional wording (such as the last sentence about implementing APIs securely).
4. Performance is not part of horizontal review. Maybe it should be, but it isn't.
5. Nice addition on allocating resources for test suites
6. The copyright information is incorrect, please see the charter template

[xfq]

Thanks for the comments, Chris! I have updated the charter to fix these points.

[plehegar]

@xfq I added agenda+ so that strat can agree this is ready to move forward. Remove it if that's not the case.

[xfq]

@plehegar I think we already discussed this in strat (see https://www.w3.org/2023/04/11-strat-minutes.html#t01 ). I didn't ask for W3M approval because I think we should have a general direction regarding TAG's comment on MiniApps before starting AC review. Since we have one now (see w3c/miniapp#195 ), I can send an email to W3M (per https://www.w3.org/Guide/process/charter.html it's still W3M and not TiLT). WDYT?

[plehegar]

@xfq, makes sense to me.

[siusin]

@xfq could you explain why MiniApp Addressing was listed as a Normative Specification but published as a Group Draft Note? Does the group have any specific expectations for this document?

[xfq]

@siusin Because it contains normative content, if it's on the REC track it can be protected by the W3C Patent Policy. It was a Note before because it was meant as a proposal being incubated, and the MiniApps CG was still discussing it with the TAG.

[siusin]

The URL of Firefox OS' Open Web Apps is broken.

Please provide a permanent URL of the charter for the charter approval.

[xfq]

Thank you, @siusin. Fixed now.

The permanent URL is https://www.w3.org/2023/10/miniapps-wg-charter.html . I'll remove the draft label if/when it's approved.

[himorin]

• start date seems missing in the top abstract table
• decision has ranged date as response period from 5 to 10 working days

[xfq]

Done: https://www.w3.org/2023/10/miniapps-wg-charter.html