Decide on a policy for editorship/authorship

[pchampin]

Decide on a policy for editorship/authorship

[TallTed]

Possibly a useful starting point...

[pchampin]

@gatemezing
The role of this issue precisely is to make it clear that the current editor/author assignment is not definitive. And also to not forget to discuss it at some point.

[gatemezing]

Well, we already have 3 authors in the latest semantics draft (2020/11/12), so maybe something is already on the way to solve this issue?!

[akuckartz]

Maybe an additional category of "other contributors" can be added? (I am somewhat proud for my successful suggestion to rename the specification ;-)

[hartig]

@pchampin do you know whether there is a contributors category in Respec?

[gkellogg]

More common is to have an acknowledgements appendix to list active members of the CG and any special notes the editors would like to make.

[hartig]

Thanks Gregg. However, I wouldn't want it to be hidden away in some appendix. A list of contributors directly below the editors and authors list would be better.

[akuckartz]

A spec with a contributors section: https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-owl2-direct-semantics-20121211/

An issue with some background regarding ReSpec
https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/152

Yet another alternative:
https://respec.org/docs/#id-gh-contributors

[hartig]

Thanks @akuckartz -- I think we can use that. What is your affiliation?

[pchampin]

This as somehow solved when releasing our first public draft. We must not forget to update the Editor/Author/Contributor lists at each publication, but I believe this issue can be closed.