- From: Thomas Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 11:16:55 +0200
- To: public-dxwg-wg <public-dxwg-wg@w3.org>
W3C has traditionally been very good about maintaining a rich historical record of discussions and decisions with its mailing lists, issue trackers, well-versioned documents, IRC records, and meeting minutes -- all extensively inter-linked. An important discussion is taking place right now in the margin of a Google doc [1]. I am not aware of any plans to preserve this document, which will almost certainly disappear. Contributions to discussion in the marging not only have no persistent identifiers; they have no citable identifiers at all. Relegating serious issues to the margins of Google docs makes it hard for anyone not actively participating in the discussion to see what is happening and will make it impossible for anyone in the future to reconstruct the rationales for decisions. Why should anyone take care in formulating their thoughts if the context makes them easy to ignore and guarantees that they will disappear? Could we at least perhaps limit comments on Google docs to points of detail and keep discussion of substantive issues on the mailing list? Tom [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/10i9oSb548T3EpK0aPFDhBNR8ycy7QFthiJgPx-pdi0Q/edit -- Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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