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Tracking changes between specification releases

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Description

Clients should declare which version of the specification they implement and keep up-to-date with specification changes (see https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/issues/1598), but we as the specification do not make it easy to understand what has changed between specification versions.

We might solve this a number of ways:

  • link to the diff between current (n) and previous (n-1) release
  • manually curate a change list
  • ???

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked python-tuf issue and the current and previous specification releases to determine how release changes are represented. Done means selecting and documenting a clear way for clients to understand changes between specification versions.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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