Dave Cridland:
> We have, I think, dependency information in XEPs. We could in
> principle build reverse dependencies, too. That won't achieve
> everything you want, but it might achieve some of it.

Exactly, and I find those dependencies helpful.

> You're imposing more work on the XEP Editor, and the Council. I'm not
> in favour of anything which increases their workloads without a known
> corresponding gain. That's not to say I think this is a terrible
> idea, I'm just saying it's speculative, and needs to be worked on
> outside the main standards process workflow at least to begin with.

+1

>> Right now all the XEPs are files in a repo, so I don't know how we
>> do this tagging and relavance index the smartest way.
>>
> I think someone (you?) clones the repo and tries out some ideas.

There is no need to change the XEPs in any way. The dependencies can be
collected independently and made available as Linked Open Data using
JSON-LD, RDF or whatever.

Cheers,
Andreas

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