Re: Synchronized specs

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Cyril Concolato
<cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote:
> Le 09/10/2014 11:37, Silvia Pfeiffer a écrit :
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Cyril Concolato
>> <cyril.concolato@telecom-paristech.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 08/10/2014 22:47, Silvia Pfeiffer a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The GitHub versions are not what counts. Read the header of the spec to
>>>> see what counts.
>>>>
>>> I'm lost then. What is the process ? Why are you merging pull requests in
>>> the W3C Github version? How do you apply them on the dev.w3.org ?
>>>
>>
>> GitHub is a means to develop the spec. It is not a means to publish
>> it. Only specs published at the W3C count.
>
> I don't think that's clear to everyone, especially when the conclusions of
> the bugs are: "I've merged the pull request".
>>
>> I have a script that
>> publishes the spec to the W3C code repository and run it to update the
>> spec infrequently. Until we get to FPWD (maybe through the HTML WG),
>> we will be running that way.
>
> So in practice the latest spec is on GitHub, not on W3C.

The editor's draft is.

> I'm fine with the process. It's just that the result is confusing. Bugs
> should either be closed by saying "I've merged the pull request and
> published it on the W3C web site" and your script ran at that time.
> Alternatively, the "latest editor's draft" link in the W3C hosted spec
> should point to GitHub.

OK, I'm going to try and add that.

Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 9 October 2014 10:02:38 UTC