[admin] Publish Early, Publish Often [Was: Re: publish WD of Shadow DOM; deadline Oct 10]

On 10/5/12 1:41 PM, ext Carr, Wayne wrote:
> People often don't know to look at the editor's draft and they wind up looking at docs the WG has gone beyond.  So, we should publish regular WDs where the editor's draft has changed as often as possible.

I agree WDs should be published if the ED has had what I'll call 
"relatively substantial" changes (since its previous publication in 
/TR/). However, I generally don't support publishing new WDs if changes 
are only non-substantive.

I don't closely monitor the progress of all of WebApps' specs (~40 if 
widget specs are included). My expectation is that group members will 
contribute to their priority specs and if/when someone (and not just 
Editors) thinks a new WD should be published, they should propose so on 
this list. At the same time, we must also acknowledge our Editors have 
other priorities besides editing thus non-Editors that want a new WD 
published should be willing to help out if some minor editorial work is 
needed (e.g. updating the Status of the Document section).

-Thanks, AB

Received on Saturday, 6 October 2012 11:49:10 UTC