Turning editors into contributor section

[himorin]

As title, along with URL redirect fix.

@kidayasuo @xfq @r12a see middle part (lines 104-147 in new column). Do we have any other item to be mentioned here?

[himorin]

test material at https://jlreq-old.w3c.himor.in/NOTE-jlreq-20250218/Overview.html
pubrules passed.

[kidayasuo]

Three comments:

1. I believe it would be appropriate to add Bin-sensei as one of the Editors, as the improvements he proposed are reflected in this version. We could consider listing him as the sole Author, but that might be a bit too much since this update is not primarily based on his work.
2. I feel that listing contributions in reverse chronological order (newest first) is more natural. However, if there is an established practice, we will follow that.
3. Could you unify the sentence-ending style? The Abstract currently uses the ですます style.

Update: Please also add Nat McCully to the list of Editors. He made editorial contributions to the English version.

[r12a]

Just a couple of comments.

[r12a]

Also, the addition of the dates of publication of the previous versions (in the Contributors section) is useful and a good idea. I'll just note that we usually recommend the use of a name for the month (a 3-letter abbreviation is fine) to reduce potential ambiguity — i know that the YMD approach is less ambiguous than other date formats, but it is also less familiar for many readers of English. (Of course, this comment doesn't affect the Japanese translation.)

[r12a]

Should we keep the affiliation information for the contributors?

[himorin]

Should we keep the affiliation information for the contributors?

ah, just followed another spec I've working on, but no personal preference,,, e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr/#ack
seeking others, mostly without affiliation for acknowledgments, removed them.

[r12a]

ah, just followed another spec I've working on, but no personal preference,,, e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr/#ack seeking others, mostly without affiliation for acknowledgments, removed them.

My feeling is that we should also acknowledge that the organisations involved allowed the individuals to work on this, which is the main reason for keeping the affiliation information.

[himorin]

ah, just followed another spec I've working on, but no personal preference,,, e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr/#ack seeking others, mostly without affiliation for acknowledgments, removed them.

My feeling is that we should also acknowledge that the organisations involved allowed the individuals to work on this, which is the main reason for keeping the affiliation information.

If so, I would rather keep former format with combination of name and affiliation.
With writing separately something like we appreciate contributions of following organizations: xxx, additional meaning than affiliation could be included, and it is quite hard to check history over 20 years. We may ask Binn-sensei about any contribution, of course...

[r12a]

keep former format with combination of name and affiliation

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I was suggesting that we just add the affiliation (the one currently in the document's front matter) after the name in parens. But it's only a suggestion. If you prefer to leave as is, that's ok too.

[himorin]

added 67940e4 per https://www.w3.org/2025/02/27-i18n-minutes.html#f79e

[r12a]

If i remember correctly, we used the div markup here to avoid warning messages about using a section with no heading. You might want to check that out.

[kidayasuo]

The change looks good. Thank you!

[macnmm]

should include this @kidayasuo

[kidayasuo]

Thank you for spotting this.
Yes, please add Nat. He contributed to the English translations as an editor.

[kidayasuo]

Thank you. The change looks good.

[himorin]

memo from 2025-03-11 JL-TF call, @kidayasuo will contact xfq and Richard about how to organize both editor field and contributors section.