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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Google may be relinquishing control [techcrunch.com] of its controversial Accelerated Mobile Pages [wikipedia.org] (AMP) project:

The project has been led by Malte Ubl, a senior staff engineer working on Google's Javascript infrastructure projects, who has until now held effective unilateral control over the project.

In the wake of all of this criticism, the AMP project announced today [wordpress.com] that it would reform its governance, replacing Ubl as the exclusive tech lead with a technical steering committee comprised of companies invested in the success in the project. Notably, the project's intention has an "...end goal of not having any company sit on more than a third of the seats." In addition, the project will create an advisory board and working groups to shepherd the project's work.

The project is also expected to move to a foundation in the future. These days, there are a number of places such a project could potentially reside, including the Apache Software Foundation [apache.org] and the Mozilla Foundation [mozilla.org].

The AMP Contributor Summit 2018 [withgoogle.com] will take place at Google in Mountain View, California on September 25 and 26, 2018.

Previously: Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web [soylentnews.org]
Google Acquires Relay Media to Convert Ordinary Web Pages to AMP Pages [soylentnews.org]
Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email [soylentnews.org]
Google Attempting to Standardize Features of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) [soylentnews.org]
Google AMP Can Go To Hell [soylentnews.org]

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