- From: Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:36:28 +0400
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C PM Working Group <public-pm-wg@w3.org>
Hi Ivan, On 13/03/2025 18:38, Ivan Herman wrote: > > Denis, > > at the moment, we have the short name `/epub` in use: [1] points at the > EPUB 3.3 recommendation[2]. AFAIK, this URL is sucht is equivalent > to[3], and it would point at EPUB 3.3. until the EPUB 3.4 line reaches > candidate recommendation (we are busy putting in a FPWD for EPUB 4.4[4]). Yes, /TR/epub is just an alias to /TR/epub/latest, which itself, points to /TR/epub-33 > > Would it be possible to change the behavior of `/latest` so that it > would point at 3.4 only when it reaches Recommendation status? The > publishing community is different from the core community, and getting > to a non-standard version would throw them off-balance. If we follow what 'latest' means from [1], then it will point to the new version when it gets published. Now, it's possible (and up to the WG), to update /TR/epub to point to /TR/epub/upcoming. The latter will keep being an alias to /TR/epub-33 until the version 3.4 reaches CR. [1] https://www.w3.org/guide/editor/versioning#shortnames > > Also, we are also requesting an approval for the `epub3` and `epub-3` > short names, as having (as of today) the same behavior as `epub` (but, > if in the future there is work for EPUB 4, then it would stick to the > epub 3 line). Introducing new shortnames like that can be confusing, especially since it's common these days to use the shortname of a spec as an identifier, e.g. the W3C API https://api.w3.org/specifications/epub-33. We can have a discussion with PLH if there are strong use cases for these links but at this stage, we are trying to simplify the whole TR links scheme more than introducing more of them. Denis > > Is this possible? > > Thanks > > Ivan > > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub/ > [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/ > [3] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub/latest/ > [4] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-34/ > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +33 6 52 46 00 43 > >
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