Re: Can a publication change over time? from Romain on 2017-07-27 (public-publ-wg@w3.org from July 2017)

From: Romain <rdeltour@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:32 +0200
To: Hugh McGuire <hugh@rebus.foundation>
Cc: Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com>, Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com>, Baldur Bjarnason <baldur@rebus.foundation>, W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>, Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>, Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>
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> On 27 Jul 2017, at 22:12, Hugh McGuire <hugh@rebus.foundation <mailto:hugh@rebus.foundation>> wrote:
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> It might be important for certain applications that a web publication not change, but I don’t think that’s a spec’s concern is it? There are plenty of WP applications that you would expect to change over time, and plenty of WP applications we can’t even imagine yet. 
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> My plea would be for us to focus on developing a minimum viable definition/spec … the bare minimum need to say: is this a WP? Yes/no? A WP should be as easy as possible to make a WP.
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> And then as publishers need certain functionality, they can build that into their WPs, which can work its way into the spec if enough publishers agree.


FWIW, I fully agree :-)

Romain.

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