ISSUE-2: TR documents which are obsolete or have been "parked" or abandoned

Obsoleting

TR documents which are obsolete or have been "parked" or abandoned

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Document life cycle (pre 2014 chapter 7, now chapter 6)

Raised by:

Charles 'chaals' (McCathie) Nevile

Opened on:

2011-11-24

Description:

There are (probably many) documents listed under http://www.w3.org/TR which have been abandoned. Sometimes these get published as a Note, but sometimes nothing happens, or they are assumed to be rendered obsolete by some new document series.

If you follow a reference to a specific version of a document (which is probably likely if you're following normative references from many carefully written specs, and even more likely if you follow them from research papers), you don't get any indication that the version you are looking at is not the latest version.

It may be easiest to solve this with some changes to pubrules. The guarantee of total content stability on /TR makes it hard - it is not appropriate just to add some CSS to provide such an important message about the content IMHO.

So where do we go with this?

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Related emails:

1. New Editor's draft, Chapter 7 (from chaals@yandex-team.ru on 2013-10-10)
2. Re: Put Editor's draft on TR page, not heartbeat formal publications -> RE: Evaluating policies; pubrules (from chaals@opera.com on 2012-03-21)
3. Re: html4 vs html5 and 'superseded RECs' when there isn't a new REC (from jeff@w3.org on 2012-03-08)
4. Re: html4 vs html5 and 'superseded RECs' when there isn't a new REC (from chaals@opera.com on 2012-03-07)
5. Re: html4 vs html5 and 'superseded RECs' when there isn't a new REC (from chaals@opera.com on 2012-03-07)
6. Re: marking obsolete TRs - ISSUE-2 (from chaals@opera.com on 2012-03-05)
7. Re: marking old TRs as obsolete - RE: 'Living Standards' (from plh@w3.org on 2012-03-02)
8. Re: End-of-lifing dead documents in /TR/ (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2011-11-24)
9. Re: End-of-lifing dead documents in /TR/ (from chaals@opera.com on 2011-11-24)

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