- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:54:47 +0100
- To: spec-prod <spec-prod@w3.org>
Hi, A few months ago, I brought a patch to respec to make it document as a link rel=canonical [1] the latest version of a given document: https://github.com/w3c/respec/pull/938 (with the goal of having search engines return the "preferred" version of a given spec) The respec patch makes it configurable what URI to use as a latest version, with a default to TR/foo - default that might need to be revisited in light of Denis' proposals [2]. I'm looking for feedback on whether to push that approach more broadly, which would entail first to add such a mechanism to other editing tools (I would in particular be happy to look at providing a patch for bikeshed), and maybe longer term make this part of the pubrules requirements. I have also separately started investigating how we could annotate our huge set of existing TR documents with a rel=canonical - but it's likely that if we come up with a system to do so, it would be more cost effective for future documents to document it themselves. Feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Dom 1. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066 2. https://w3c.github.io/tr-links/versioning/
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