Re: Spec organizations and prioritization

On 2012-03-22 14:40, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> ...
>> Modularization for the sake of it is make work; modularization built
>> around fast tracking features that are already deployed and
>> interoperable seems to be a good investment (even if costly).
>
> We would need to ask Hixie how long it took him to write the script that breaks the WHATWG spec up into the little specs (and cost of maintenance of that code). That would give us a real cost estimate.
> ...

That gives you a cost estimate for the case where you start and maintain 
a single spec, and then split it up later.

That cost is different from starting with several specs in the first place.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:46:28 UTC