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Re: RANT: posting IDs more often -- more is better -- why are we so shy?

Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> Wed, 01 March 2017 17:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: RANT: posting IDs more often -- more is better -- why are we so shy?
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> For the third time in two days I find myself, when asking others for
> opinions
> about some text, pointing at github commit logs.  With the beautiful
> makefiles we often have, one can't even depend upon having a formatted .txt
> version there!


You can fix this with better tooling within github and travis integration
fwiw. Checkout the httpbis github https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions
- you'll see the for each adopted draft the README.md has links to the
"editor's draft" in both txt and html as well as the working group draft.
The former is auto-generated on every push to the repo, the latter is a
pointer to datatracker.

I'm not arguing against updating data tracker more often - just saying this
'editor's draft' convention can work very well between official revisions
no matter the cadence a WG chooses.

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