Some of our standards have enough of an active community that they maintain themselves, with a new working group created to formalize these updates.
But not all of our standards do - yet all of our standards need to be maintained as bugs emerge over time.
After 4 years, the JSON-LD community is now interested in bringing an update to the existing Recommendation, based on lessons learned and features that didn't make the first release json-ld.org/presentations/JS…
Jan 26, 2018 · 3:26 PM UTC
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We are now trying to improve how that maintenance happens, and facilitate the publication of correction to the standards. With many of our specs developed in @github repos, we want to use these repos to track and discuss bugs discovered after Recommendation.
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But with 200+ recommendations without an active Working Group, even tracking all these repos is a bit of a logistical challenge. We've recently set up an automatic periodic summary of the activity on repos of these orphan specifications
We're starting to track the maintained state of W3C Recommendations lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… @w3c
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