Re: snapshots vs living standards

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:13:20 +0100, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:

An elegant statement of one of my central points (and with much classier  
metaphors than I would use).

> Le 5 mars 2012 à 05:49, Charles McCathieNevile a écrit :
>> I think a more sensible charaterisation is between a stabilising
>> publication process (I'll continue to call this the 'snapshot model'  
>> here
>> because I doubt that trying to change terms is useful), and one where
>> changes can just be thrown in at any time.
>
> May I note that there are both snapshot models with different release  
> paces.

Yes. That is where I started... and you're right that it is on its own an  
important point.

cheers

> We are building a wall where they should not be, because each community  
> sees the time which matter to them. To build a cathedral, you need(ed)  
> centuries, to build a house a few weeks. I would call it "time for  
> completing actions".
>
> We have different social constraints for our specifications. The time  
> range in between two changes which matter for a community depends on its  
> community.
>
> * Software Engineers
> * IT Lawyers
> * QA people
> * Web developers
> * Web marketers
> * Physical devices builders
>
>     Requirement 3: Identify who and/or what will implement the  
> specification.
>     — http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#implement-principle
>
> It might be that the different type of crowds will not have to use the  
> specification terms in the same way. W3C specifications have evolved
>
>   from a generic description of the technology and a "free to
>        implementation" on the algorithmic part
>
>   to   a very precise description almost a "textual reference
>        implementation"
>
> So each time we talk about the way to publish, maybe we should be  
> talking about time it takes to achieve things for each relevant crowd  
> and how we articulate the flow of information around this more than  
> document themselves which are just representations of an idea.
>
>


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