Support "old ids" for terms that change
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- JavaScript
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Description
When a term was defined in published spec, but then vanishes from a spec, ReSpec should complain.
This may be because:
- the term was deleted
- the term was renamed
Related to:
https://github.com/w3c/tr-design/issues/153
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Research direction
Start by reviewing this issue and the related tr-design issue 153 to understand how ReSpec tracks terms across published specifications. Determine how deleted and renamed terms should be identified and reported; done means ReSpec detects vanished terms and clearly distinguishes those cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100