- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:35:20 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: public-w3process@w3.org, ab@w3.org
[snip] > An aside: That's the second time I've seen this "every effort" phrase used here, and I know it's a common idiom for saying "considerable effort", but that seems prone to confusion in a document that's trying to be precise. W3C does not and will not bother to maintain Recommendations when it seems like more work than it's worth, so it might not even rise to the "reasonable effort" bar. Is there ever any staff time allocated to it? I don't think so. The other use was, "W3C will make every effort to make archival documents indefinitely available at their original address in their original form." That's closer to true, but still not literally. Editorially, how does that differ from "W3C will make archival documents ...."? I guess the "every effort" bit is meant to weaken it a little, acknowledging that we might not be able to? I'd prefer to avoid this idiom. I don't object to other verbiage. Some thoughts: * We have a strong persistence policy for some content including tech reports. That is a maintenance guarantee of sorts. We have that guarantee even for document seldom used. * I think it's fine to say that some specifications are maintained more actively than others, and that it is probably a natural function of how much they are used. > > Another aside: as a commenter in one of the two groups involved here, I'm a little confused about how my comments are being tracked and will be responded to. Should I be waiting for Charles or some other official response? Charles is the editor. I'm just some guy here. :) Ian > > -- Sandro > > > >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >> Tel: +1 718 260 9447 >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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