"No amount of software will solve a process problem" I know it is narcissistic to quote myself, but I said that about something at the W3C in like... the mid 90's. Minimal pubrules could mean the current pubrules checks but that it knows a WD push can ignore much of it. Link checking for example I really apprecate. On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote: > On 03/07/2013 15:07 , Shane McCarron wrote: > >> I agree with much of this. However, I would not like to see working >> groups be able to update documents in the final states of the process >> (e.g., CR, PR, REC, PER) without staff review and approval. Those are >> the lawyer documents, and W3C has liability and responsibility. >> > > Certainly, and the steps above also include FPWD (since that's a very > fundamental trigger in the patent policy). In any case, doing anything else > for the above would involve changing the Process, which is pretty much what > I'm hearing everyone says we shouldn't do. We're essentially talking about > WD updates. > > Ideally, pressing the button would: > > Pull a given commit from a git repo. > Run the generation tool if it's one of the supported ones (otherwise you > provide HTML). > Run some minimal pubrules (HTML validity and checking that some basic > elements of the headers are correct nothing more). Reject if fails. > Publish. > > To be fair though, in the past few years (before joining the Team) I've > never had to wait more than 24h before releasing a WD. DAP had its calls on > Wednesday afternoons Paris time, and we always made the Thursday > publication window. Beyond the advantages in simplicity in letting groups > push WDs out by themselves (if nothing else it would free up time for the > webmaster to do more interesting things), it might be useful to figure out > why some groups seem to need much more time than that. Not knowing those > problems, it's a definite possibility that they won't go away if we add > automation. > > -- > Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon > -- Shane P. McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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