Expose Community Groups reports

[dontcallmedom]

For a tool I'm building to keep track of CG activities and results, it would be useful to have a way to list draft and final reports published by Community Groups in the W3C API

[vivienlacourba]

@dontcallmedom, a few weeks ago we discussed with @jean-gui and @deniak about porting the CG code to Symfony and in particular what relates to the CG reports. Once done we will be able to expose it in the W3C API. But this had in our mind a low priority, we were still planning to do it in 2019 but without a more specific date. Seeing that this is of interest to you, we might try to tackle this sooner.

[dontcallmedom]

no need to raise the priority from my perspective - it's a nice to have for my project, not a must.

(I thought it was just a matter of exposing it, I didn't remember it was built on a different code base)

[jyasskin]

I would also like to use the API to find CG reports, as described in https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2021AprJun/0018.html.

[dontcallmedom]

@jyasskin while I'm supportive of the need, I don't think this particular request will fulfill your use case: only a very small number of CG reports are actually recorded as such at the moment. For instance, none of the many docs under development in WICG have been recorded: https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/#group-reports

I also don't think we record editors when CG reports are filed, since CG reports in general don't have the same parseability guarantees as TR specs.

I'll follow up on spec-prod with an alternative approach.

[jyasskin]

Thanks! I'm happy with your suggestion to use Reffy instead.