Re: References and Modularity

Le 1 juin 2013 à 17:04, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
>> Is there any part of www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/ you disagree with?
> 
> […] There's no need to reference a dated version.
> Standards for (web) software require active maintenance so using
> references that won't change over a decade is the wrong optimization.


Dated versions, md5 hashtags, any kind of schemes that identify a specific version in time is irrelevant in that discussions. Versioning systems are exactly the same thing than a dated space with smaller increments. 

The interesting questions are along these axis:

1. How does a user (implementer) find the last version?
2. How does a user (historian, lawyer) find the nth version?
3. How does the document informs users that a nth version is not anymore the one to follow for his/her specific usage?
4. What are the expectations for this version with regards to certain constraints and users.
   - implementers
   - lawyers 
   - users
   - etc.

The issue with dated versions at W3C in the current context is not the fact of using/pointing to a dated version, but what *some* dated versions mean in the process.

In the things we do not do very well at W3C (and any versioning systems) is linking to n+1 (forward linking).


-- 
Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Received on Tuesday, 4 June 2013 01:09:39 UTC