Streamlining errata management

When Process 2018 came into effect, one of the major changes was the 
ability for W3C produce an Amended Recommendation to update a 
Recommendation [1], without adding new features, parallel to the way a 
Working Group produces an Edited Recommendation. This was an important 
update since it gave us a path to update a Recommendation if no Working 
Group was chartered to maintain a Recommendation.

The transition requirement document was updated accordingly [2].

The next step was to streamline the management of errata. W3C published 
a lot of Recommendations over the years and lots of them remain relevant 
to today's Web.

To facilitate the editing and handling of errata, we're proposing a 
workflow based on GitHub issues (kuddos to Ivan Herman for initiating it):
   https://github.com/w3c/display_errata

The intent is to spread this workflow to existing W3C Recommendations 
(we've been requiring all W3C Recommendations to have a GH repository 
for comments since last year).

Comments here or on GH are welcome.

Philippe

[1] https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#revised-rec
[2] https://www.w3.org/Guide/transitions?profile=CR&cr=rec-amended

Received on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:48:12 UTC