[csswg-drafts] drafts.csswg.org published specs are weeks/months out of date with repo sources (#8809)

sideshowbarker has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== drafts.csswg.org published specs are weeks/months out of date with repo sources ==
A large number of the CSS specs published on drafts.csswg.org are many weeks or even months out of date with their git sources — or in several cases even more than a year out of date.

The following table shows the date when each spec was last published, and compares that with the date for the most-recent commit to the git source for the spec.

Spec URL   | Days since spec<br>last published | Days since source<br> last changed
---------- | ---------------------------: | --------------------------------------:
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-animations-2/ | 66 days ago | [15 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-animations-2/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-animations-1/ | 66 days ago | [32 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-animations-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-4/ | 56 days ago | [28 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-backgrounds-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-3/ | 58 days ago | [51 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-backgrounds-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade-5/  | 129 days ago | [20 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-cascade-5/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/  | 68 days ago | [19 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-color-5/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/  | 66 days ago | [24 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-color-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-4/  | 66 days ago | [16 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-display-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox-1/  | 108 days ago | [50 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-flexbox-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-font-loading-3/ | 601 days ago | [34 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-font-loading-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/  | 61 days ago | [44 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-fonts-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-2/  | 243 days ago | [53 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-grid-2/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/  | 61 days ago | [1 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-images-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-3/  | 124 days ago | [1 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-images-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline-3/  | 156 days ago | [35 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-inline-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-lists-3/  | 437 days ago | [53 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-lists-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-3/ | 65 days ago | [39 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-overflow-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-position-3/ | 65 days ago | [38 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-position-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/  | 112 days ago | [40 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-pseudo-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ruby-1/  | 131 days ago | [53 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-ruby-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-snap-1/ | 65 days ago | [16 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-scroll-snap-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-3/  | 65 days ago | [53 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-sizing-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/  | 65 days ago | [12 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-text-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/  | 83 days ago | [12 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-text-3/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms-1/ | 445 days ago | [30 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-transforms-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transitions-2/ | 66 days ago | [12 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-transitions-2/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transitions-1/ | 66 days ago | [54 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-transitions-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-5/  | 97 days ago | [30 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-values-5/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-4/  | 61 days ago | [2 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/css-values-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view-1/  | 143 days ago | [12 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/cssom-view-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-1/  | 201 days ago | [10 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/cssom-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/ | 129 days ago | [54 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/mediaqueries-4/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/scroll-animations-1/ | 58 days ago | [1 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/scroll-animations-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/web-animations-1/ | 67 days ago | [38 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/scroll-animations-1/Overview.bs)
https://drafts.csswg.org/web-animations-2/ | 67 days ago | [32 days ago](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commits/main/web-animations-2/Overview.bs)

It seems reasonable for the wider web-developer community and PR contributors and browser implementors and spec editors to expect that whenever a change is made to any CSS spec source in the git repo, the corresponding drafts.csswg.org spec will get automatically rebuilt and republished.

(That auto-publishing behavior is what was happening with the w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts specs. And speaking from my perspective as an MDN/BCD contributor, I can say it’s the behavior that MDN and BCD maintainers have been relying on when reviewing MDN and BCD PRs related to CSS features — and I can imagine it also being the behavior that other groups of stakeholders are similarly expecting).

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8809 using your GitHub account


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