Re: edits to the draft should reflect the consensus of the WG

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Karl Dubost wrote:
> 
> What you could argue for is more visibility. For example today I 
> proposed to Hixie on IRC, that on the table of content outline of the 
> specification. Either on a separate page or on the html document. He 
> puts flag to indicate the maturity level of the edits and/or the 
> planned.
> 
> For example, there could on each toc item. (this is just an example)
> 
> 3.2.3.3. Real numbers         Last edited: 2007-05-27. Need more work
> 3.2.3.6. Lists of integers    Not yet edited.
> 3.3.3.1. Block-level elements Last edited: 2006-03-16 Pretty Stable
> 3.3.3.6. Paragraphs           2007-08-16 - Working on it now.

The spec has the beginnings of such information, but it is not yet done. 
I'm looking for people who can volunteer time and coding skills to writing 
a tool to help me with this. If anyone has the time and inclination to do 
this, please contact me on IRC or directly by e-mail.


> Another possibility is to send a simple email to the list to inform 
> which section is edited.

Some people have suggested working on regular announcements, if anyone 
wants to work on this I recommend going ahead and making them. I'd be 
happy to advise; again, catch me on IRC or e-mail me.


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Robert Burns wrote:
> 
> I'm not shooting on the main editor, I'm simply asking that the edits reflect
> the hard work of this groups members.

This will happen in due course. Right now I'm still dealing with the ~3700 
e-mails that have been sent to the WHATWG list over the past 3 years. Once 
I've dealt with those, I will start with the problem descriptions in the 
Wiki and deal with those. It seems only fair that I should deal with the 
feedback on a somewhat first-come-first-served basis.

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Received on Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:42:22 UTC