Re: [Rfced-future] Welcome to the RFC Editor Future Development Program

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 03 April 2020 07:00 UTC

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On 03.04.2020 07:25, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-04-03, at 06:46, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 03.04.2020 05:07, John R. Levine wrote:
>>>> During the AUTH48 period, whoever is reviewing the document needs to
>>>> check ALL of the formats, especially around examples and figures and
>>>> any non-ascii text.
>>>
>>> Currently the RPC people are proofreading all of the output formats,
>>> which takes a lot of work.  I hope authors are also, but that's up to them.
>>> ...
>>
>> That sounds like a bug in the process to me. And it won't scale if we
>> add ePub.
>>
>> There should be *one* format that is to be proofread, HTML. If the other
>> output formats have an issue, that's a tooling problem that needs to be
>> solved, and the other formats can be regenerated.
>
> This doesn’t work too well in an environment where the tooling is fluid, and in fact the format that the tooling works from and its interpretation is fluid as well.

If the tooling is that fluid (is it for HTML?), that shows that we
shouldn't have started the switch yet...

> When the tooling has a bug (read: it uses the interpretation of 2020-04-02), and the XML is adapted to work around this bug, and the tooling is then fixed (read: it now uses the interpretation of 2020-04-03), the new output may be erroneous.

The (canonical, published) XML never ever should be adjusted to work
around a bug. Is this happening?

> ...

Best regards, Julian