- From: Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:13:32 -0700
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Douglas Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, SVG-A11y TF <public-svg-a11y@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAFDDJ7y21_0cNkzrfwVMxfNWQRCQxbSNLH_ZOO8p01NnBNRBOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Rich et al., The SVG-AAM spec references the GitHub pages URL as the "Editor's Draft" version of the specs. However, the gh-pages branch version of SVG-AAM has not been updated in 8 months. The aria-graphics module does not even exist in that branch. Other files on gh-pages have been updated more recently, but there doesn't seem to be any sort of coordinated synchronization. I'm not sure what needs to be done to update a given file. Maybe some editors are just pushing their changes to gh-pages and master at the same time. The main ARIA 1.1 specs now use the RawGit URL (to the master branch) as the official Editor's Draft. I do not know why the decision was made to do that instead of using gh-pages, but if gh-pages is not going to be updated, then we need to do the same. It somewhat defeats the purpose of having a publicly accessible Editor's Draft, if it is completely disjoint from the master files used by the editors. I would like to bring up the SVG-AAM as an agenda item for the main SVG working group, but I would prefer to have a URL to a document that clearly identifies itself as the Editor's Draft being discussed! The fastest fix would be to update the SVG-AAM file to include the RawGit URL of the master branch. We also need to change it so that it clearly identifies itself as an Editor's Draft, not a published Working Draft. However, you may want to discuss this with the main ARIA team, to decide what to do with all the out-of-date files that were published via gh-pages. These are still accessible on the web, and would appear to a visitor to be the latest Editor's drafts. Best, Amelia
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