Re: Long lists of Editors and SpecRef entry generation

On 9/2/22 09:59, Manu Sporny wrote:
> 
> * Retiring the concept of Editors and Authors and moving to single
> "Lead Contributors" that bundles Editors, Authors, and Chairs (we
> really need to start recognizing Chairs) model... though I expect this
> is going to be difficult to do from a cultural perspective.

There are a lot of types of contributions that go into a spec, where are you 
going to draw the line exactly?

The editors need to be called out in the spec because you need to know who to 
contact if there's something wrong with it.

The Acknowledgements section is for everything else.

If the concern is bibliographic data, I think it would be reasonable to just 
credit the relevant Working Group as the author rather than the editors 
individually. I always felt it was weird to be credited in the bibliographies 
as the “author” of the specs I edit.

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 12 September 2022 07:22:00 UTC