- the ability for experience "from-the-field", or in other words, areas of optimization and/or convenience that have been discovered past the point of a specification last-call, and yet add value to more than one implementor, and as such justification for collaboration on how to go about things in a way that makes sense to more than one implementor.
- The ability to push off controversial, questionable, and/or just plain ugly pieces of any given spec that do little more than cause a need for the spec editor to spend a bit of time to pre-funk before approaching his/her inbox, knowing exactly what it is that requires him/her to get half way to his/her home office before returning to the fridge for an extra two bottles to kill the pain thats bound to ensue WELL after the pre-funk has worked its way through the system. ;)
Something like this could start at the Atom wiki with a "PostSpecOptimizations" page set-up where folks can attach data sheets with test results, or real world use-case studies that showcase needs in particular areas that are not enough to justify their own spec, but enough to offer gains to the community as a whole, and as such, justification to work in a more centralized manner such as this list once it has gotten past the "yeah, this makes sense to me too... lets propose it" stage.
Or is something like this simply inviting WAY TOO MANY little things to find justification to plug up the collective inbox of the community members?
On 5/4/06,
A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-04 18:00]:
> The only sane answer would have been to make link extensible.
There's no doubt about that at this point. Non-extensibility of
links has caused us a lot of pain in several different extensions
at this point.
Unfortunately, only hindsight is 20/20…
> However, for now, I think I'll proceed by simply dropping the
> count and when from the draft.
Okay. It's a pity, since folks were obviously getting value from
that information, but it's an acceptable move.
Regards,
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