Re: Instructions for publishing FPWD

Thanks, Manu. Just minor adjustments

> On 17 Oct 2025, at 21:46, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> Rough instructions to Editors for preparing a draft to publish as a FPWD:
> 
> 1. Checkout the repo
> 2. Create a directory called /transitions/2025/FPWD
> 3. Change the front-matter of the spec:
>   * specStatus: "FPWD"
>   * publishDate:  "2025-10-30"
>   * Update Editors to be you and the others that are confirmed as Editors
> 4. Generate static copy by previewing spec in your browser, and
> clicking (top right of page): ReSpec -> Export... -> HTML
> 5. Copy downloaded file to /transitions/2025/FPWD/index.html

If you have diagrams (SVG or images), please copy them as well. The …/FPWD directory must be self-standing, so to say.

> 6. Upload index.html to the following W3C Checking tools:
>   * https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload
>   * https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_upload
> 7. If those pass, commit FPWD/index.html
> 8. Do linkchecker: https://validator.w3.org/checklink
> 
> There is a way to run this locally, but you have to install Perl.
> Provide the published URL to the checklink website after the repo has
> deployed (wait 3 minutes for it to deploy, you can watch the Github
> Action execute in the repo if you want):
> 
> https://w3c.github.io/vc-confidence-method/transitions/2025/FPWD/
> 
> Once that's done, do a PR to update the appropriate fields with @@@ in
> Ivan's PR:
> 
> https://github.com/w3c/vc-wg/pull/2/files

There is nothing specifically for editors in that PR (I have changed the dated URL-s already). What is missing are the IPR and implementation information.

> 
> I think that's the rough list, I might have forgotten something...
> just ping me over the weekend and I can help if I'm around. Put aside
> 1-2 hours to get through all of it. The worst part is the checklink
> process if you have broken links. You can also ignore many of the
> errors because of robots.txt rules. You'll just need to make a
> judgement call.

As soon as all this is ready, ping me, please. I will have to install a copy of your file to the W3C site, something that only W3C team members can do.

If there are link errors that are o.k. in your view, please give me your arguments; I will have to forward them to the Webmaster in the publication request. One typical situation, b.t.w., is that some external URLs hide several hops of redirection that the link checker script cannot follow. (It does not execute scripts, for example.) One rule of thumb: if you manually copy a link to the browser bar, and it works properly, you are o.k. (just tell me).

Ivan

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