Automatic publication set up for three WPWG specifications

Dear Web Payments WG,

Back in April when we published PR API, Basic Card, and Payment Method Identifiers specifications,
we resolved [1] to set up auto-publishing so that Editors drafts would be pushed on an ongoing basis
to W3C’s “TR page” [2]. We documented this expectation in our “how we work” page [3].

There was no urgency in April to set up auto-publishing, so we didn’t do so. Months later, however,
some of the specs linked from the TR page were starting to become stale, so today Mike Smith
set up auto-publishing for those three specs. Thank you, Mike!

A few details:

 * Our publication system uses dates in URLs. So the URL for today’s updated PR API is:
    https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-payment-request-20161207/

   If the Editors push more updates today, that page will be updated in place. Any updates
   that are pushed tomorrow will cause a new URL to be generated, and all updates on that date
   will appear in that document.

 * The updates are generated through a “Travis CI” hook that gets run every time anything gets
    pushed to the default branch (which for these specs is the gh-pages branch).

We have not yet set up auto-publishing for the HTTP-* specifications or the Overview. I suggest
if the Editors would like to do so, that we look into it in January.

Questions by email welcome. I also plan to mention this at the 8 December call [1].

Ian

[1] https://www.w3.org/2016/04/14-wpwg-minutes#item02
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/tr-date-all
[3] https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/How-the-Working-Group-works#specifications
[4] https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/Agenda-20161208
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