Re: [admin] XHR ED Boilerplate

Is Anne the *sole* author? Did the WG or others not contribute any text or
suggested text to the spec? It seems like a bit of a slippery slope to
attempt to designate a sole author for any W3C product. You might want to
check with the pubs team on this matter.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>wrote:

> [ Sorry for the delayed response, I was choking on some turkey ... ]
>
> Here's what I did for the URL spec re the boilerplate to help address the
> "attribution issue" re Anne and WHATWG:
>
> [[
> <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/**raw-file/tip/Overview.html<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html>
> >
>
> This Version:
>    http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-**file/tip/Overview.html<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html>
> Latest WHATWG Version:
>    http://url.spec.whatwg.org/
> Previous Versions:
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-**url-20120524/<http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-url-20120524/>
> Author:
>    Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
> Editor:
>    Web Applications Working Group <public-webapps@w3.org>
> Former editors:
>    Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
>    Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>
>    Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
> ]]
>
> In the case of XHR, the new Editors would be listed as Editors and if they
> made contributions to the spec, they would also be added to the Author list
> too.
>
> If something like that would not be acceptable for the XHR ED, what
> specific change(s) do you request?
>
> -Thanks, AB
>
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 23 November 2012 20:34:49 UTC