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Editorial Changes are ill-defined outside of REC-track documents #536

Closed frivoal closed 2 years ago

frivoal commented 3 years ago

As discovered in https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/532#issuecomment-842940661

The definition of "editorial" is not that it's non-normative, but that it doesn't make any difference to the technical content.

The common-sense definition might be that, but the process definition is:

  • No changes to text content
  • Corrections that do not affect conformance

Nothing in a Note affects conformance, so allowing editorial changes (without being more specific) allows rewriting the entire Note. We don't want that. We probably need a better definition of “editorial change” that makes sense to apply to documents other than Rec-track documents, but that's a separate issue

This is this issue.

frivoal commented 2 years ago

Closing as a duplicate of #28