Replace gh-pages editors draft with auto-published TR drafts

Hi,

As some of you may know, W3C has deployed over the past few months a 
system that allows to publish documents as official W3C technical 
reports without involving the W3C Webmaster [1], and that can be plugged 
into a github-travis workflow [2].

So far, some of the specificities of our documents (special copyright 
statement, joint specs) prevented us from using this system, but the 
last of these barriers will be removed very soon.

I would thus like to propose we replace the current "editors draft" 
workflow, whereby the editors:
* publish an "official editors" draft via an update to the gh-pages of 
our repos
* produce and publish a frozen dated version of the same for archival.

The updated workflow would replace the production of a frozen dated 
version in github by its automatic production and publication as a 
Working Draft in W3C TR space.

The benefits of doing so would be:
* avoid having 3 concurrent versions of "latest" for some meaning of 
latest (github master, github gh-pages, w3c TR); with that new approach 
github gh-pages and w3c TR would always be the same
* less mechanical work for publishing updated editors draft

Now I realize that for gUM and webrtc-pc 1.0, we expect to move to CR 
sooner rather than later, and since that proposal mostly makes sense for 
WDs at this stage, it may not matter a lot in the short term.

But we already know we'll start a new cycle of WD for WebRTC-NV, and 
will likely need to start a new WD cycle for a next version of gUM at 
some point.

I am thus looking for feedback from editors if they're interested in me 
exploring this approach further.

Dom

1. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015JanMar/0005.html
2. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015JanMar/0034.html

Received on Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:28:39 UTC