- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 15:31:14 -0600
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
[...Changing list to QAWG...] At 06:21 PM 5/3/2005 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: >On Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 5:03:49 PM, Karl wrote: >[...] >KD> The QA Working Group agrees that for deprecated, obsolete, optional >KD> features and subdivisions, it was not clear how a specification could >KD> match the requirements if none of these were present in the >KD> specification. To clarify this, the Good Practices and Requirements have >KD> been amended. For instance, the "Identify deprecated features" now reads >KD> in "What does it mean?": >KD> If the specified technology has already been published in a previous >KD> version of the specification, indicate the features from the >KD> previous version now deprecated or state in the conformance section >KD> that no features were deprecated. >KD> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-qaframe-spec-20050428/#deprecated- >KD> feature-principle > >Thank you for the response. It partially satisfies the concerns I >raised. > >A first publication of a specification can still have deprecated >features, if there was a previous poorly documented, undocumented, or >defined-by-implementation version. Jeremy Carroll also mentioned this odd case, that the first version of a spec might deprecate features from a mature technology or W3C Submission upon which the spec was based. Perhaps it deserves a note. -Lofton.
Received on Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:31:27 UTC