Major unannounced Specberus updates wrecking publishing

It looks like at the beginning of this month (November), Specberus
updated with some significant changes that are blocking publications,
but these changes were never communicated publicly, so now
Bikeshed-generated specs fail publication in a multitude of ways. Some
of the failure messages even *explicitly say* "If you are using
bikeshed, please update to the latest version.", but the current
latest version of Bikeshed does not conform to these new requirements,
because nobody told me about them!

I've been bitten by numerous smaller unannounced Specberus updates in
the past, this month's update is just particularly egregious. Where
should I be watching to learn about these changes *before* they go
live on Specberus and get my users filing issues about failures?

For an example, see
<https://www.w3.org/pubrules/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2021%2FWD-css-values-4-20211016%2F&profile=WD&validation=simple-validation&informativeOnly=false&echidnaReady=false&patentPolicy=pp2020>,
where a recent attempt at a publication is suddenly throwing over a
dozen errors, most or all of which are brand new and which I had no
way of anticipating.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:07:30 UTC