Re: Editor's notes

> On Feb 20, 2017, at 8:45 AM, marcos@marcosc.com wrote:
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>> On 21 Feb 2017, at 3:23 am, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net> wrote:
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>> In specs I work on (JSON-LD and others) ednote is used during development to communicate status between editors. Issues, at tied back to GitHub and cover more long-standing discussions about spec content that are usually not simple editorial points. Please keep ednote.
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> Just to be clear, ednotes are not going away :) the question is if we, as a community, want to see them styled differently from regular notes. 

Other than ensuring that it’s clear this is an Editor’s Note vs a regular note, I don’t really have an opinion. It might be worth having some logic to verify that all ednotes are removed before CR, or some other suitable milestone.

Gregg

>> Gregg Kellogg
>> gregg@greggkellogg.net
>> 
>>> On Feb 19, 2017, at 6:44 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Spec Editors,
>>> 
>>> Some specs feature "editors notes", which are notes that an editor
>>> leaves for the reader or for themselves for whatever reason. These
>>> editors notes are styled in the same way as regular notes (green box,
>>> with a bold "heading").
>>> 
>>> We are wondering, should such editors notes be stylistically
>>> distinguished from regular spec notes (and, should they be included at
>>> all in specs)?
>>> 
>>> If the answer is "yes, they should be styled differently": then we
>>> should decide on how to distinguish them in "base.css" (see [1]).
>>> 
>>> If the answer is "no, just keep them the same", then ReSpec will
>>> automagically start to convert them to "notes" (by changing the css
>>> class value to from "ednote" to "note").  If I don't hear any
>>> responses, I'll assume "no" and change ReSpec to match.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Marcos
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/w3c/tr-design/issues/110
>>> 
>>

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