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In-process additions will likely have spec text which is authored by a champion or a committee member other than the editor although in some case the editor may also be a champion with responsibility for specific features. The editor is responsible for the overall structure and coherence of the ECMAScript specification. It is also the role of the editor to provide guidance and feedback to spec text authors so that as an addition matures, the quality and completeness of its specification improves. It is also the role of the editor to integrate additions which have been accepted as “finished” (stage 4) into the a new revision of the specification. + +
To reach Stage 4, multiple specification-compliant native implementations are required. A native implementation is one which implements ECMAScript all the way from parsing through execution. Native implementations often face different constraints from other sorts of implementations, such as cross-compilers to earlier versions of the language which do not need to support features such as eval, though other such implementations provide useful feedback for the committee and are encouraged as well. An example of a native implementation with sufficient in-the-field experience is an implementation embedded in a web browser shipped to users in a "preview" mode, such as triggered by downloading a special version of the browser, or an option in preferences.
To reach Stage 5, significant in-the-field experience is required. This means that the implementation must be available to a large number of users by default, without users triggering any sort of extra mechanism to opt in to the feature. For example, shipping in a stable version of a web browser, or a widely distributed version stable version of ECMAScript-powered web server software, would give significant in-the-field experience. This experience is useful to uncover compatibility issues discovered as a result of shipping.