Spec has zombie-life on /TR

[gkellogg]

Description of problem

URL to affected spec or repo:

https://github.com/w3c/json-ld-bp

What happened (e.g., it crashed)?:

Spec shows previousVersion on /TR when never published.

Expected behavior (e.g., it shouldn't crash):

It shouldn't have have a previousVersion, and shouldn't show on /TR at all.

Optional, steps to reproduce:

I've created a PR to change status to "unofficial": https://github.com/w3c/json-ld-bp/pull/44. You can see through the preview that This version is on /TR, as is the Latest published version. Interestingly, I've even comment out the shortName from respecConfig, it still wants to publish in the same place.

In fact, this was previously marked as a "NOTE", but the JSON-LD WG never actually got around to agreeing to publish it.

The ReSpec Errors say "Ask a W3C Team Member for a W3C URL where the report can be published and change latestVersion to something else", but it has no latestVersion, and @iherman doesn't understand this either.

  var respecConfig = {
    localBiblio: jsonld.localBiblio,
    specStatus: "unofficial",
    copyrightStart:    "2019",
    //shortName:  "json-ld-bp",
    edDraftURI: "https://w3c.github.io/json-ld-bp/",
    github: {
      repoURL: "https://github.com/w3c/json-ld-bp/",
      branch: "main"
    },
    editors: [{
      name: "Gregg Kellogg",
      url: "http://greggkellogg.net/",
      w3cid: "44770"
    }],
    //previousMaturity: "NOTE",
    //previousPublishDate: "1977-03-15",
    github: {
      repoURL: "https://github.com/w3c/json-ld-bp/",
      branch: "main"
    },
    doJsonLd:   true,
    group: "wg/json-ld",
    wgPublicList: "public-json-ld-wg",
    maxTocLevel:  4,
    noRecTrack:   true
  };

[marcoscaceres]

Yeah, that's definitely a bug... For some reason, the W3C's header template is being loaded and adding the Latest Version... it shouldn't do that for unofficial drafts :(

[gkellogg]

It would be nice for this issue to get some love; it seems like a rather serious issue at the heart of ReSpec, even if it might not be apparent in other usages.

[sidvishnoi]

I'll try to find some time in week of 21st. Away at present.

[TallTed]

Maybe soon after TPAC 2023? Since I can't imagine it'll get touched before then...