<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 4:12 PM Levantovsky, Vladimir <<a href="mailto:Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com">Vladimir.Levantovsky@monotype.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I did NOT say they can’t happen here, but this is exactly the kind of decision that cannot be taken lightly, and it is definitely not a joke!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for clarifying - so you are saying, comments made about 1.X vs. 2.0 _are_ helpful and welcome here, but not "in passing"? If yes, how to formalize such discussions? :)</div><div><br></div><div>On Github, we can have issues assigned to Milestones so its very clear what context they are in: </div><div><br></div><div>1. Current Spec Changes (Editorial - no differences for implementations, "OT 1.8.x)</div><div><br></div><div>1. Iterative Spec Changes (Small to medium work required by implementations to meet the standard, "OT 1.9.x")</div><div><br></div><div>3. Incompatible Spec Changes (Large impact for implementations, "OT 2.0")<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-2514383480287283398WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">New specs can be written easily, but it’s the wide adoption [not the spec itself] that we should care about the most because, in the end, it is what benefits
users. You seem to care a lot about consensus decisions, and this is exactly why consensus decisions are so important.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Harfbuzz is now adopted widely (Google, Adobe, MS...) and anyone can fork and implement anything and submit it mainly harfbuzz. </div><div> </div></div></div>