Workstream editors are only listed in the Acknowledgments?

[cwilso]

I was digging through trying to understand who the current Editors are for some of the Workstreams. Am I correct in thinking that we don't keep a list of Editors per Workstream anywhere, other than in the Acknowledgments of each spec? That seems a bit chaotic.

[domenic]

https://whatwg.org/workstreams I think has what you're looking for, produced from https://github.com/whatwg/sg/blob/main/db.json

[cwilso]

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for. It seems like that page should be linked from somewhere, like Work Mode, specs, FAQ... I'm happy to think that through and put together a PR, LMK if you think it's a bad idea.

[domenic]

I think the reason we haven't done it so far is because the distinction between workstreams and specs is kind of inside-baseball. I'm sympathetic to that sentiment, e.g., it seems like web developers would be better off not caring or knowing about workstreams.

But from an SDO perspective, it is indeed kind of weird for this central process mechanism to be hidden. So yeah, adding a link seems reasonable.

[cwilso]

Hmm, true. I think my only concern is that it's not that easy to tell who the Editors are for a given spec - maybe that should just get listed in specs. Hmm.

[annevk]

We could add per-standard editor information to the Workstreams page. Perhaps in a way that it only shows if they are not also the Workstream editor.

It was a somewhat deliberate decision to not emphasize the editor too much. And therefore they are listed in the Acknowledgments section. Any requests should really go into the issue tracker and in the end it's a much larger community that makes the specification work than any particular individual.

Amongst ourselves and on whatwg/meta we sometimes speak of maintainers. I've sometimes wondered if we should just adopt that terminology, but thus far I haven't felt strongly enough about it as it would be a bunch of work. 😊

[cwilso]

Seems like adding a link in https://participate.whatwg.org/ to "and the workstreams[link] they are part of" would solve this.