CR publication workflow
Starting from July 2, 2018, Echidna is able to publish Candidate Recommendations. This page describes the different requirements you need to fulfill before submitting your CR to Echidna.
Echidna can publish:
- "ordinary" CR (coming from a WD)
- CR update with substantive changes
- CR update with editorial changes only
The first two cases require the Director's and communication team's approval and will also trigger a new Call for Exclusion. If you just publish a CR update with editorial changes only, you don't need the approvals and can submit your document to Echidna directly.
The transition requests are now managed at https://github.com/w3c/transitions. The README.md of that repository offers templates to create pre-filled issues for new transition requests. The director will then make some comments and ultimately approve the request with the following comment 'Transition approved.'.
Note: it's important that the title of the issue ends with the shortname of your specification. That's how Echidna will find the right issue when processing your request.
Once the transition is approved, you will need to send the draft transition to w3t-comm@w3.org. After a careful review of the draft, the Communication team will approve it by commenting on the GitHub issue 'Draft transition approved.'.
After you get all the necessary approvals, you can submit your document to Echidna as described in the wiki.
When updating a CR, Echidna will assume it contains substantive changes by default. If you are only adding editorial changes, you can skip the transition/draft announcement steps by adding the following parameter editorial=true to your request, e.g.
curl 'https://labs.w3.org/echidna/api/request' --data 'url=<documentUrl>&decision=<decisionUrl>&token=<token>&editorial=false'