Re: WebPlatform Browser Support Info

I am not advocating for hand editing wiki compatibility tables. I am
advocating for a solution for entering compatibility data as soon as
possible, instead of waiting for the whole import effort to finish (unless
we are talking about less than a month).

(And Opera is on a fast track, too, so make that three out of five. :))


☆*PhistucK*


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, PhistucK wrote:
> > I understand it does not feel so urgent to you, but when I work on or
> edit Web Platform Documentation wiki pages, I usually want to add
> compatibility data (as much as possible for me) to the page (I think this
> workflow makes sense). I am already reading through the subject in order to
> provide accurate information, so I want the information to be as complete
> as possible.
> >
> > Currently, there is a note that instructs the contributor not to touch
> the compatibility tables, because it will be automated. Right now, we lose
> data, opportunities and nice efforts due to that note. I know I avoided
> entering the information because of that note, even for places where
> external compatibility data would probably not have information (but who
> knows?).
> >
> > If you intend to allow people to submit pull requests, I think it should
> happen as we speak. People (me, anyway) want to help bring up this website
> with any information they can possibly provide. Not supporting that right
> now is a loss of a potential community effort.
> >
> > (Note that while the documentation should be filled with educative and
> reference content, a lot of developers just want to know whether the
> feature can be used, rather than how to use it, so a seemingly simple use
> case is lost during this time, until this project reaches any user facing
> milestone)
> Hand-edited compatibility data for the Open Web Platform with two vendors
> out of five releasing a new version of their browser _every six weeks_ just
> won't scale. The data will become stale pretty much immediately.
>
> Encouraging contributors to submit data we know will shortly be
> overwritten by an automated system risks alienating them from further
> contributions. I think the current move (instructing contributors not to
> touch that data) is the right one.
>
> --tobie
>