Define the publication date as the approval date

[palemieux]

Closes #21

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[FredWalls]

Can we provide some kind of notification for those who access the standards library if we decide to make this change? I'm sure it's possible for people to figure out what happened, but I think it would be beneficial to explain that documents before X date are indexed by publication date, documents after Y date are indexed by approval date, and documents between X and Y dates might be either.

[palemieux]

@FredWalls To clarify: today all documents in the SMPTE document library are indexed using the approval date.

The change being proposed going forward is to change the date in the document designator, e.g. the 2023 in ST 2067-21:2023, from the publication date to the approval month and year, e.g. ST 2067-21:2022-11.

The date in the document designator will not change for existing document.

See sample at SMPTE/html-pub#190

[FredWalls]

@palemieux I'm kind of confused by your statement... when I click on the documents in the new library, the links come up as "published" followed by a date. I would consider this to be indexed by the publication date. But regardless, I think my point stands that whether we say that the change was to the document designator or something else, there needs to be a mention that a change was made to how it was derived.

[palemieux]

I'm kind of confused by your statement... when I click on the documents in the new library, the links come up as "published" followed by a date.

Do you mean, for instance, Publication (1990-03-28) at https://pub.smpte.org/doc/eg1/ ? If so, Publication refers to the state of the document.

But regardless, I think my point stands that whether we say that the change was to the document designator or something else, there needs to be a mention that a change was made to how it was derived.

No disagreement.

[FredWalls]

Do you mean, for instance, Publication (1990-03-28) at https://pub.smpte.org/doc/eg1/ ? If so, Publication refers to the state of the document.

Ah, I understand what you're saying now. Notwithstanding I think it would be helpful to include the word "approved" next to that date as well if the tooling supports it. :)