Re: updating milestone labels

On 05/06/2016 06:15 PM, jeff.hodges@kingsmountain.com wrote:
> Tony created two milestones in our w3c/webauthn repo..
>
>    https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/milestones
>
>    FPWD - First Public Working Draft - only issues that need to be resolved for
> the Second Public Working Draft
>
>    SPWD - Second Public Working Draft - only issues that need to be resolved
> for the Second Public Working Draft
>
>
> However, as Wendy informed us on the call last Tue, the W3C process doesn't
> have a notion of "second public working draft".  Rather, the next major
> process step is to promote the draft spec to "candidate recommendation"..
>
>    https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#maturity-levels
>
>
> Note that a FPWD is allocated a spot in the W3C "TR" (technical report)
> namespace, namely..
>
>    https://www.w3.org/TR/<ShortNameHere>/
>
> Further note that we, the WG, can (and likely will) update our working draft
> spec copy in the TR namespace from time-to-time as our "editors' draft"
> matures (the latter (in rendered form) is: https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/).

Yup, the process (and good practice of keeping the /TR document a useful 
reference to those following our work) also recommends publishing 
periodic snapshots of the Editors' Draft.

>
> Thus I suggest we establish milestones as we go along for such updates to
> published-in-TR-namespace-working-draft along the lines of..
>
>    FPWD-00  (renamed present FPWD milestone (yes, milestone
>              names are updateable))
>    FPWD-01  (MS for next refresh of published-in-TR-namespace-working
>              -draft, target date TBD)
>
>    ..etc (if needed)..
>
>    CR       (renamed SPWD milestone with same target date
>              of 13-Sep-2013 (for now))
>
>
> WDYT?

Makes sense to me. (Possibly just WD-01, etc., since after FPWD, it's no 
longer First.)

--Wendy

>
>
> =JeffH
>



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Received on Saturday, 7 May 2016 00:23:08 UTC