Re: Shipping Atom products prematurely

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 15, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> I've just changed the old, pre-WG drafts that I host on mnot.net to 
> clearly state that they're not to be implemented, and are superseded 
> by the work here.

Thanks Mark, and thanks for raising the issue here, I thought the 
discussion was really useful.  There seems fairly widespread agreement 
that:

1. Atom 0.3 is out in the wild, implementations of it will live as long 
as the gopher support still there in modern browsers.  It's been 
useful.
2. We should try really hard to keep any interim versions this side of 
1.0 from escaping into the wild [modulo the fact that the release of 
v1.0 of anything is a punctuated, jerky, non-atomic event]; so far 
we're doing OK on this.
3. Atom 1.0 is probably going to be substantially incompatible with 0.3 
in several respects and that's OK.
4. We should hurry up and get this done.

If anyone observes any leakage of post-0.3 pre-1.0 versions, please 
shout loudly and continuously and we'll see what community pressure can 
do.  When 1.0 ships, we should all join together and use the 
(considerable) power of our public voices to get the world to start 
switching over.

 -Tim