Re: Retiring tr.rdf

Yves Lafon <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:34:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.specifications
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> On 15 Jun 2020, at 08:17, Denis Ah-Kang <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> In the past, the only way to get data related to the
> specifications was tr.rdf [1]. However, a few years ago,
> we released the W3C API [2] to provide more complete data.
> Since we are now focusing our effort to improve the API,
> I would like to know who still rely on tr.rdf and what
> can we do to remove that dependency in favor of the API.
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> I have already identified specref [3] and transition-notifier
> [4] in the list of tools using tr.rdf but if you know another
> one, please reach to me and I'll get in touch with the
> maintainers to see if there's a way to make the switch.

IIRC some scripts used by some IETF groups are using tr.rdf (as I =
received some bugs report in the past about missing things in it).
What is the issue in keeping cool URIs [5]?

> [1] https://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/tr.rdf
> [2] https://api.w3.org/doc
> [3] https://github.com/tobie/specref
> [4] https://github.com/plehegar/transition-notifier

[5] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

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        ~~Yves