Freedesktop standards now say These are not really standards, and
redirect to Specifications.
IMHO, these ARE standards, just not official or authoritative like ISO
or IEEE standards. It is common to refer to coding standards for
source code conventions defined within an organization or
On Monday, 1. December 2008, Joe Krahn wrote:
The first definition of standards at dictionary.com is:
something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis
of comparison; an approved model.
That's exactly the issue:
Some fd.o specs are generally agreed upon, while others are
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 20:09 +0100, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
Although, didn't someone propose a distinction between specifications that
have
generally been agreed upon, and specifications that have not?
The Specifications wiki page should have that already, listing the
specifications in such
On Monday 01 December 2008, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 20:09 +0100, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
Although, didn't someone propose a distinction between specifications
that have generally been agreed upon, and specifications that have not?
The Specifications wiki page should have
