Re: PSA: publish WD of "WebIDL Level 1"

> On 07 Aug 2015, at 14:45, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/4/15 2:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> This is heads-up re the intent to publish a Working Draft of "WebIDL Level
>>> 1" (on or around August 4) using Yves' document as the basis and a new
>>> "shortname" of "WebIDL-1":
>>> 
>>> <https://ylafon.github.io/webidl/publications/fpwd-20150730.html>
>>> 
>>> There is an open question about what should happen with TR/WebIDL/ (which
>>> now is the 2012 Candidate Recommendation). One option is to serve it as
>>> WebIDL-1. Another option is to replace it with the latest version of
>>> Cameron's Editor's Draft. A third option is to make it some type of "landing
>>> page" the user can use to load the various versions. Feedback on these
>>> options is welcome and the default (if there are no non-resolvable issues)
>>> is to go with option #2 (Yves' preference).
>> The CSSWG always points the non-leveled url to the latest spec.
> 
> This is also what PLH recommended be done and that seems reasonable to me. Thus:
> 
> TR/WebIDL/ -> TR/WebIDL-2/
> TR/WebIDL-1/
> TR/WebIDL-2/
> 
> The L2 version (by Cameron and Boris [L2]) has not been published as a TR and if there no objections to proceeding as above, I will start working on making this all happen.
> 
In fact, I would prefer to have the editors’ copy published as TR/WebIDL/, and let -1 -2 … -n be pointers to the stable version (aka, what is implemented, not what has to be implemented).

> -Thanks, AB
> 
> [L2] <http://heycam.github.io/webidl/>

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