Self-review for the i18m horizontal review

Dear all,

as you know, we have to start self-review for our core specs (the Annotation specs will be handled separately). We have been in contact with Fuqiao Xue, who leads this activity at W3C, and he asked to start the review from fresh.

Following Fuqiao's response, I have duplicated our old i18n self-review, and updated it[1]. I have changed the references to point to the right documents, changed the document version numbers, etc. I have also added a history section, referring back to the previous i18n self-review[2]. I also went through the checks themselves, but I did not see any major necessary changes, ie, I believe our original self-check is still valid (as it should). (The real work was done years ago!)

Furthermore, I also took a look at the closed i18n issues[3], and I do not think any of those should be re-opened as a result of our recent changes.

If you are interested in this, could you take a look at [1], please? If we are all o.k., I can officially submit the necessary issue[4] to start the official process. My goal is to do this submission, if possible, on Thursday or Friday of next week.

It is a wiki, so cannot handle PR-s; the best is if you raise a separate self-review issue, if necessary; for minor comments answering to this email is also fine.

Thanks

Ivan

P.S. As an aside: we have a relevant label on our issue list, namely "i18n-tracker". Its description says: "Group bringing to attention of Internationalization, or tracked by i18n but not needing response." (The same issue labels exist for the other horizontals). We should use this label with care, because the i18n group is flooded with issues, but it may be useful nevertheless.


[1] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/wiki/I18n-self-review,-EPUB-3.4
[2] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/wiki/I18n-self-review,-EPUB-3.3
[3] https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues?q=label%3Ai18n-needs-resolution%20OR%20label%3Ai18n-tracker
[4] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/issues/new/choose


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