Re: Spec organizations and prioritization

Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 21:32 +0100, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:20:51 +0100, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>  
> wrote:
> 1. We have been asking for people to do this since before the HTML WG  
> started. Nothing has come out of that thus far. Until someone proves  
> otherwise (and it's close to a decade now) those are non-existent  
> resources.

That's a fair point; and I'm only pushing this because I feel I could
find resources, by asking differently.

Now, if I were to find resources, I know that the first question I would
get would be whether the main editor would be supportive of that
approach — both in the sense that he would not see it as a pure
nuisance, and also in the sense of providing assistance to help
assistant editor(s) getting started.

You're not Hixie, but maybe this is something you've discussed with him?
Would you be yourself also available for the "getting started" part?

> 2. Modularizing a part of HTML (or anything really) is actually a rather  
> complicated procedure that requires detailed understanding of how all the  
> pieces fit together. That is why thus far only experienced editors (with  
> time) have demonstrated the feasibility.

True (although the difficulty probably depends on the specific module
targeted); I take it that it would require someone with either very good
existing knowledge of the spec, or with enough competence to catch up
quickly. But that still doesn't seem unsurmountable (but I'll only prove
that if and when I find such a person).

Dom

Received on Friday, 23 March 2012 14:34:02 UTC