Re: change proposal for issue-86, was: ISSUE-86 - atom-id-stability - Chairs Solicit Proposals

On 16.04.2010 01:19, Edward O'Connor wrote:
> ...
> I actually prefer #1 too, but am willing to meet Julian half-way
> (dropping<entry>s with unstable IDs). I'm opposed to not generating an
> Atom feed at all in such cases, which is what Julian originally
> proposed:
>
> [[
> "The same absolute URL must be generated for each run of this algorithm
> when given the same input. If this requirement can not be fulfilled,
> then generating a valid Atom feed is not possible and this algorithm
> should be aborted."
> ]] -- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/0193.html
>
> Julian wrote:
>> Anyway, we already have two change proposals; one for dropping the
>> section completely, one for fixing just the two issues I spotted. Do
>> you want to make a third one?
> ...

I have no problem with just dropping problematic entries; on the other 
hand I'd be surprised if it makes a big difference in practice, where 
the pages are generated from a datasource, so the individual articles 
will likely have all an ID, or none of them.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 16 April 2010 11:20:17 UTC