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drafts.csswg.org published specs are weeks/months out of date with repo sources #8809

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A large number of the CSS specs published on drafts.csswg.org are many weeks or even months out of date with their git sources — or in several cases even more than a year out of date.

The following table shows the date when each spec was last published, and compares that with the date for the most-recent commit to the git source for the spec.

Spec URL Days since spec
last published
Days since source
last changed
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-animations-2/ 66 days ago 15 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-animations-1/ 66 days ago 32 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-4/ 56 days ago 28 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-3/ 58 days ago 51 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade-5/ 129 days ago 20 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/ 68 days ago 19 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/ 66 days ago 24 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-4/ 66 days ago 16 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox-1/ 108 days ago 50 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-font-loading-3/ 601 days ago 34 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/ 61 days ago 44 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-2/ 243 days ago 53 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/ 61 days ago 1 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-3/ 124 days ago 1 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-inline-3/ 156 days ago 35 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-lists-3/ 437 days ago 53 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-3/ 65 days ago 39 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-position-3/ 65 days ago 38 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/ 112 days ago 40 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ruby-1/ 131 days ago 53 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-snap-1/ 65 days ago 16 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-3/ 65 days ago 53 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/ 65 days ago 12 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/ 83 days ago 12 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms-1/ 445 days ago 30 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transitions-2/ 66 days ago 12 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transitions-1/ 66 days ago 54 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-5/ 97 days ago 30 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-4/ 61 days ago 2 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view-1/ 143 days ago 12 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-1/ 201 days ago 10 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/ 129 days ago 54 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/scroll-animations-1/ 58 days ago 1 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/web-animations-1/ 67 days ago 38 days ago
https://drafts.csswg.org/web-animations-2/ 67 days ago 32 days ago

It seems reasonable for the wider web-developer community and PR contributors and browser implementors and spec editors to expect that whenever a change is made to any CSS spec source in the git repo, the corresponding drafts.csswg.org spec will get automatically rebuilt and republished.

(That auto-publishing behavior is what was happening with the w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts specs. And speaking from my perspective as an MDN/BCD contributor, I can say it’s the behavior that MDN and BCD maintainers have been relying on when reviewing MDN and BCD PRs related to CSS features — and I can imagine it also being the behavior that other groups of stakeholders are similarly expecting).

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