Re: Editor's notes

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Shane McCarron <shane@spec-ops.io> wrote:
> A regular note is typically non normative content that remains in a spec
> forever. Ed notes are more ephemeral and generally are ascot the document
> and its development rather than advice about the normative content .

For both of the examples given in your previous message, the CSSWG has
either used regular notes, or just source-document comments, and not
seen a problem.

All of this is supporting the argument that "ednote" doesn't have a
strong semantic concept, making it unclear precisely when to use it.
The existing note/issue dichotomy is very clear in comparison - info
vs problems.  Source-document comments handle the final category of
"notes to future self / other editors, that aren't relevant to other
spec readers".

~TJ

Received on Friday, 24 February 2017 21:43:54 UTC