- From: Marcos Caceres <m.caceres@qut.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 18:24:56 +1000
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Mike Schinkel" <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>, public-html@w3.org
On 4/2/07, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:25:49 +0200, Mike Schinkel > <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com> wrote: > >> Can people please name things properly on the Wiki... naming pages > >> "DeclWebFormExpr04" is unhelpful. And please stop assigning numbers > >> to issues as it makes no sense to do so. > > I agree. > > > > To the contrary; it is very helpful. I am the one doing the assignment > > of numbers. I followed the lead of the TAG from their issue list.[1]. > > The benefit of assigning a sequential number is to make is very easy to > > do searches and get (almost) 100% relevant matches. For example, try > > the following to searches: > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=AbbrAcronym > > http://www.google.com/search?q=AbbrAcronym01 > > Yes, if you remember the actual string the issue was assigned you'll be > able to find it back... I'm not sure this makes it very easy to find a > particular issue though. A list of issues would probably work better. > Exactly as Anne said. Personally, I'm not going to remember "DeclWebFormExpr04" but I might remember "Issues related to HTML5" or something more a bit more human. Those arbitrarily abbreviated names are completely impracticable and impossible to remember.... and the fact that I can just do a simple search like http://www.google.com/search?q=AbbrAcronym and find what I want points to exactly the problem with that naming scheme. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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