Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Thu, 29 April 2021 10:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-arch] Recommendation 6: Architectural model for clients
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Hi,

On 2021-4-29, at 4:12, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> This is why I like Jay's approach of trying to figure out what our I-D
> authors actually do from writing to editing to AUTH48 to RFC, and see
> what the gaps are before trying to guess what tools to update or
> create.

do we have any data on the number of Word authors, whether the numbers are going up or down, and whether there are clusters in certain WGs and/or areas?

I wonder if we could push more docs to XML by assigning editors to documents, esp. WG documents, that are up to speed with authoring in XML or Markdown.

Thanks,
Lars