Re: WG-NOTE and Previous Version

On 27-02-14 17:59, Marcos Caceres wrote:
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> On Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ian Jacobs wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org (mailto:robin@w3.org)> wrote:
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>>> On 13/02/2014 14:47 , Ian Jacobs wrote:
>>>> A Working Group Note does not need to have been previously published
>>>> as a Working Draft.
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>>> Right, but does that not make it a FPWG-NOTE?
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>> Hi Robin,
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>> This may or may not help:
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>> * I thought the original question was "Do you need to publish a WD before you publish a NOTE?" In state transition terms, no.
>> * It may be that there are mechanisms in place to help the publishing process. Like a clear label to distinguish the first NOTE
>> from other ones. For example, if we are looking for the previous version link, it's nice to say to the checker "There isn't one, this
>> is the first time this NOTE has been published."
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>> I see you using these labels:
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>> FPWG-NOTE means "first in the series"
>> NOTE means "any one after the first"
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> Given the above, I've fixed the bug in ReSpec that any "*-NOTE" requires a previous published document. This includes notes of class GG, IG, FPWD (!), and just "NOTE".
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> PR is here - appreciate review:
> https://github.com/darobin/respec/pull/296
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> Hopefully this will put an end to the madness :)
>

Thanks.

I should add that ReSpec is a tremendous improvement (and sometimes life 
saver) compared to old methods. Thanks for that as well!

Guus

Received on Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:33:12 UTC