On 19 Jun 2010, at 7:52 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
Thanks for joining in Ian! ;-)
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:42:50 +0200, Ian Jacobs <i...@w3.org> wrote:
People who are following work closely want the freshest information
possible. That includes mailing list discussions, specs, and so
forth. Those who are leading the way expect people following close
behind to keep up. ("What? You didn't read my proposal from last
Thursday in time for Monday's call??")
Other people can't keep up or that's just not their priority. I
think it would be useful for the group (as the TAG used to do) to
publish a monthly summary of key decisions, changes, milestone
updates, and so on. That summary would be very helpful to some,
even if it were only a rough approximation of the truth.
Making the Hypertext CG public would go some way towards that.
Or at least public summaries.
For specs, I love Editor's drafts. I also think that snapshots are
very useful, especially during review periods, since managing
expectations with a moving target during a review is a challenge.
So snapshots at LC, CR, PR are all helpful.
It would be interesting to know when exactly it is found useful to
read a draft that is no longer current. It is certainly useful to
know the history of a draft, but version control systems help with
that.
The utility is not in reading something that is out of date. It is in
everybody being on the same page for a specific purpose and for a
limited duration. While it's possible to manage a review of an
evolving document, I find that it is way more complicated.
I have not yet investigated why CSS 2.1 has not been updated lately.
The reason is that we would either have to go back to Last Call or
publish errata. Either way would involve quite a bit of work. (If I
remember correctly; this was discussed a while back.)
I guess I should look into the situation; I'll check in with Philippe.
Anne and Henri, would you be available for a phone chat to talk
about this task force we're running? Karl, you can come too if you
want ;)
Apart from my cellphone I do not really have anything I can use at
the moment to make a call. Well, I do have Skype, but it is not
working great.
In person would be good too, but that's no making things easier...hmm,
well I guess we can continue by email and IRC.
But not today...
_ Ian
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