Make Incubation more obvious, with more surfaced information

[tabatkins]

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[tabatkins]

Probably want a new Status of "Incubation", which turns on several required (or at least suggested) metadatas for tracking things.

• Clearly indicate the signaling status from various browsers; default to showing "No signals" for a handful of "major" browsers (come up with a relatively objective criteria: 1% of the world user-base?) until the spec explicitly indicates their status.
• Indicate rough status: single-engine early exploration; feedback-seeking active dev; stable and intending for WG promotion; back-burnered until someone has bandwidth for it again; abandoned.

[hober]

This is a great idea.

Probably want a new Status of "Incubation", which turns on several required (or at least suggested) metadatas for tracking things.

I'm not sure if it should be a Status; some incubation venues are W3C CGs where Status should be CG-DRAFT or CG-FINAL, whereas when other venues (IGs, WGs, etc.) do incubation, some other Status is more appropriate. It seems to me whether or not something is incubation is orthogonal to its Status.

• Clearly indicate the signaling status from various browsers; default to showing "No signals" for a handful of "major" browsers (come up with a relatively objective criteria: 1% of the world user-base?) until the spec explicitly indicates their status.
• Indicate rough status: single-engine early exploration; feedback-seeking active dev; stable and intending for WG promotion; back-burnered until someone has bandwidth for it again; abandoned.

I think it's extremely valuable to surface the status in the three engines (prototyped, origin trial, shipping, removed, some kind of "opposed"), independently of whether or not we surface the status in N browsers.

[hober]

See also WICG/admin#90 & WICG/admin#102.

[hober]

• Clearly indicate the signaling status from various browsers; default to showing "No signals" for a handful of "major" browsers (come up with a relatively objective criteria: 1% of the world user-base?) until the spec explicitly indicates their status.
• Indicate rough status: single-engine early exploration; feedback-seeking active dev; stable and intending for WG promotion; back-burnered until someone has bandwidth for it again; abandoned.

Now that I think about this more, I think it would be useful to indicate all of these things for specs which aren't incubations, too.