Making editors' drafts public

Part of moving to being public Working Groups (XSLT and XQuery both) is 
that editors' drafts should be made public.

This isn't as simple as moving the old Member-only document-staging-area 
to somewhere public. We also need to use different CSS style sheets on 
the generated HTML - to say "editor's draft" so that people don't get 
confused and think they are looking at a Rec. People seem very easily 
confused about that.

I think that can be automated on a per-spec basis, so a possibility is

[1] minimal, and I think sufficient:
* on a commit of Overview.html in any spec in qt-pecs, a process will 
copy the HTML into a public area and also change the CSS
   as needed;

* the list of specs for which this is done would be maintained by hand.

More disruptive:
[2] move to using public CVS for specs, or

[3] move to using github

I'm not in favour of [3] because it's needless disruption right now, and 
because it'd break the build system.

A consequence of [2] would be that the CVS logs might become public - or 
we could abandon CVS version history and check in clean versions of 
everything.

[1] is more work for the team (that's fine) and [2] is more work and 
more disruptive for the editors (not fine) so I propose that we do [1] 
and will pursue this unless I hear otherwise.

I'll post the list of specs before making any changes.

Are there any other changes needed to the documents to make them public? 
Maybe adding something to the status section to note that they are in 
progress and not in fact Candidate Recommendation documents (or 
whatever)?

Liam


-- 
Liam Quin, W3C
XML Activity Lead;
Digital publishing; HTML Accessibility

Received on Wednesday, 7 October 2015 02:10:20 UTC