Brendan Eich wrote: > On Aug 16, 2008, at 11:23 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > >> Brendan Eich wrote: >>> We in Ecma TC39 have been using wiki.ecmascript.org for committee work, >>> but with almost everything visible to the public. What were you hoping >>> to do with it? >> >> Contribute to the discussions there. It's much more efficient to do that >> by editing the wiki than by commenting here -- that's what wikis are for. >> In particular, I wanted to comment on security implications (both >> positive and negative) of some of the proposed extensions. > > The standards process is pay-to-play within Ecma, except for > Universities. See my reply to Peter Michaux sent just now. We would have > to consult with the TC39 chair about including non-members as invited > experts, and in general such experts have been invited only to one or > two meetings. The public wiki is new for Ecma; we're still working out > how it should work.
OK, but to me this makes the wiki a significantly less reliable source of information, since I cannot have any confidence that if someone (not a member of TC39) had seen an error then they would have been able to correct it. Note that this is not just a theoretical concern; I have seen a large amount of obsolete or incorrect content on the wiki (in both the ES3.1 and ES4 sections) that I suspect would probably have been fixed long ago if they were more openly editable. Some wikis distinguish between editing and append-only commenting, where the latter can be configured to be allowed for a wider group of users. For Docuwiki there is a plugin to implement this: <http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:userannotations> It also allows users to edit their own comments. I think there are clear advantages to this over having to search mailing list archives to see what comments have been made on a given page. However, it still preserves a clear distinction between "official" page content written by TC39 members, and comments by other users. > In the mean time, please post thoughts here. I will. -- David-Sarah Hopwood _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
