A Draft Note explaining how to write explainers
active 2025-01-30 → 2025-03-05 (UTC)
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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.
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- Issue#18ChristopherA2025-03-05 09:57Add Section in Template for Synergy/Alignments?
- Issue#17hober2025-03-05 09:57Explainer explainer should more strongly encourage authors to surface security and privacy considerations
- Issue#15alice2025-03-05 09:57IDL in explainers?
- Issue#13jyasskin2025-03-05 09:56Consider turning the Explainer Explainer into a Note
- Issue#12torgo2025-03-05 09:55Explainer template needs to make it clear you don't need to fill out everything for every review
- Issue#11jyasskin2025-03-05 09:55Suggest linking to developer-facing materials or research
- Issue#10jyasskin2025-03-05 09:55Ask for multi-stakeholder review in the Explainer Explainer
- Issue#9jyasskin2025-03-05 09:54Update the WebIDL guidance for explainers
- Issue#8jyasskin2025-03-05 09:54Explain why to write an explainer
- Issue#7jyasskin2025-03-05 09:54Explain why to focus on the end-user's need, and/or moderate that advice
- Issue#6jyasskin2025-03-05 09:54Discuss the lifecycle of explainers
- Issue#5jyasskin2025-03-05 09:53Discuss the ideal granularity for explainers
- Issue#4csarven2025-03-05 09:53Discuss involving participants from multiple skill sets and global locations in the explainer
- Issue#3matatk2025-03-05 09:53Terminology: "Non-goals" meaning
- Issue#2matatk2025-03-05 09:52Optional section on roadmap (future version plans) for the spec
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