[docs] Preparing new release of Roadmap document

Hi all,

As most of you know, every 3 months I publish an overview of the ongoing
work around Web technologies relevant to mobile:
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/

I'm planning to release the next edition of the quarterly "Standards for
Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap" document next
Monday (Feb 3).

As discussed previously (and recorded in action-55), I have transformed
the infrastructure I have been using to produce the document into
something where external contributions are (somewhat) easier.

The result of that work is in
https://github.com/w3c-webmob/mobile-web-app-standards where the
document will be maintained from now on.

This repository has the following principal content:
* an index.html that contains the crux of the textual content of the
document, but doesn't include the summary tables.
* the data/ directory that contains JSON files that describe the specs
that get included in the document
* generate.js that builds the summary tables

The building of the document also relies on data obtained from other
sources:
* the activity on editors draft is built from
https://github.com/dontcallmedom/w3c-editors-draft-tracker
* the iconography representing the level of implementation of a given
feature is built from
https://github.com/dontcallmedom/canmymobilebrowser
* data on published W3C Technical Reports (munged from
http://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/tr.rdf via
tools/extract-spec-data.py )

Based on all this, I've built a first draft of the document:
http://www.w3.org/2014/01/mobile-web-app-state/

I've already submitted a number of issues that I know I need to fix
before finalizing the document:
https://github.com/w3c-webmob/mobile-web-app-standards/issues?milestone=1&page=1&state=open

I would very much welcome contributions to this between now and next
Monday; contributions can take the form of:
* reviews of the draft document; comments on typos and ill-use of the
English language would be very useful
* issues submitted to the github repo
https://github.com/w3c-webmob/mobile-web-app-standards/issues
* pull requests that fix existing issues (following the indication given
in the README.md doc)
* pull requests that fix data on implementations in
https://github.com/dontcallmedom/canmymobilebrowser

Once this edition is completed and published, I'll come back to the
group on a discussion on how to re-use the collected data to build
dashboards, and what additional data we could look at collecting.

We could also look into simplifying the building of the document, which
remains somewhat convoluted, making it harder to contribute to the
project.

I'll probably also look into further adapting the project so that other
groups (e.g. the Web & TV IG) could re-use its infrastructure for their
own goals.

Thanks,

Dom

Received on Monday, 27 January 2014 16:56:30 UTC