Re: publication infrastructure / respec

On 29 April 2011 14:51, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
> Thinking about it some more, I think respec is almost entirely
> orthogonal to revdoc (my publication-from-the-wiki system); they overlap
> in generating the boilerplate at the top of the document, but revdoc can
> just overwrite respec's boilerplate if necessary, and rewrite the links
> during publication as necessary as well.
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> So, I think the real questions are:
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> 1.  Version control: CVS, Mercurial, or Wiki?

So the basic w3.org website remains CVS-backed, as I understand it.
For most group Web pages, the Wiki seems a reasonable alternative,
especially for freeform / rough notes work.

For the actual specs and test case repository, I'd like to give
Mercurial a go. Can't claim to be an advocate but I'm quite liking
using Git lately, and the two systems are similar
(http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2010/06/16/why_we_chose_mercurial_as_our_dvcs/
).

> 2.  Authoring format: Mediawiki markup, or HTML5-with-<sections>.  This
> includes how the bibliography is done.

Is there a reasonable stable XHTML-friendly flavour of HTML5?

Dan

> I have no opinion, myself, on these questions.
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Received on Friday, 29 April 2011 13:03:30 UTC