Proposed path for ARIA 1.1 source

Hi James - we had a brief chat in the ARIA call today about what to do
with the ARIA 1.1 source. I explained that you and I had agreed to put
the source in the CVS and not migrate to Mercurial until 2.0. The
primary reason for this was to keep the existing tool chain in place,
since the 1.1 spec will be very close to the 1.0 spec. However, a couple
additional use cases came up in the call: in Mercurial it is easier for
people who aren't official editors to add content, so we don't have a
bottleneck if a couple of us happen to be away at the same time; and the
timeline to ARIA 2.0 may be longer than we want to wait to adjust the
tool chain. After kicking around these use cases, we cooked up the
following suggestion:

    * Put the ARIA 1.1 spec in Mercurial now, instead of putting it in CVS.
    * Keep the current XSLT-based generator for the ARIA 1.1 spec, in
      the short term. This will require a little bit of tweaking paths
      in the generator environment on your and my machines but shouldn't
      be horrible.
    * Publish a public editors' draft of ARIA 1.1 with the preliminary
      proposal for ARIA-describedat, this September as proposed. The
      editors' draft would probably be in CVS somewhere; people could of
      course load up the Mercurial version but it wouldn't have the
      pieces that are provided by the generator.
    * At some point after this, probably next year sometime, implement a
      new build environment. Currently the expectation is that it will
      be Respec-based with custom scripts in place of the XSLT-based
      generator. The timeline for transition is flexible, based on when
      there is a window between other more urgent tasks. At this point
      we retire the XSLT-based generator and start pointing to the
      Mercurial version as the sole editors' draft location.

Is this a plan that sounds ok to you? If so I can set it up in
Mercurial, unless you'd like to so you can control how the branch is set up.

Michael
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Michael Cooper
Web Accessibility Specialist
World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
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