Hi, Michael,
On 3/1/2017 6:05 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
> FWIW, industry often doesn't let out ideas until filing preliminary
> patents, which has a similar effect.
> AFAICT, the speed of an -00 is more tightly correlated to the
> motivation for the document.
Good point, but tell me why -01 and -09 and -17 don't come out faster?
If it's because the authors are busy, and aren't working on that document,
that's fine. But I'm seeing some kind of shyness to putting new versions out.
I'm not sure it's easy to determine except on a case-by-case basis.
Other reasons: the community wasn't ready for the doc yet, other docs
took priority (for the author or WG), there might be lots of email list
activity to resolve an issue, etc.
Is there a distrust of documents which have "too many" revisions?
I'm not sure I'd call it "distrust". But it is hard to keep up with a
constant stream of revisions, esp. for very large docs.
Should the beautiful history bar in the datatracker, have some measure of
changes? Would graph of lines changed (in the XML!) per revision be
interesting? Would that help know how close a document is to being ready?
Not necessarily. First, moving sections around can give a false sense of
a major change. And a doc that is only wordsmithed could either be close
to being ready or be an indication of apathy.
There's no substitute for actually tracking what's going on with a
document, and no replacement for a person investing time to figure that out.
Joe