Re: Supporting levels and level-less drafts in /TR, bikeshed

Shane McCarron <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:28:53 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.specifications
Message-ID <CAJdbnOB4fTriXVKXmUUzcXA+v5k1-1MMt_B6vnET3vgorJKY0g@mail.gmail.com>
FWIW I have never understood CSS levels.  And I don't know how they map to
normal versioning of other things.

As to "living standards" - conformance people don't like living standards
in the same way that they don't like frequent updates of tools.  Large
organizations go through a lot of trouble to validate that version X of
something satisfies their requirements.  For better or worse, those
organizations represent a big piece of our constituency.  In order for
their model to work you need stability.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Tobie Langel <[email protected]> wrote:

> So looking at some of the comments to the little poll Marcos created[1]
> it's blatantly obvious there is no shared understanding whatsoever of what
> a level means.
>
> I generally run bikeshed with the -f option because of that.
>
> Overall, we're back to the issue of needing iterative editing on one side,
> and having an IP process that's unfit to deal with this on the other.
>
> Have we considered adopting semver for specs and having major versions
> trigger IP commiments in parallel?
>
> --tobie
>
> ---
> [1]: https://twitter.com/marcosc/status/724808518289776640
>
>



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Shane McCarron
Projects Manager, Spec-Ops