Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/26/2002 04:54:26 PM:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would this mean there would be a DTD defined for Gump modules/projects? > > There is already. > > > One of the hassles I find with Gump (and many other xml-based tools), is > > the lack of detail on what is a good vs bad descriptor, what's optional, > > what's not, and what everything does. I know there's documentation on the > > home pages about it.... > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/dtd/ How relevant are they? They were done over 9 months ago by Jason van Zyl. I've noticed many inconsistencies when editing module descriptors wrt the ordering of elements. Does gump use these DTD's itself? I couldn't find any use of it in the proposal/gump/project directory. > > And my other question would be, why introduce this to Gump? What is Gump > > going to do with the new information? I can understand why you need it in > > Centipede, but for Gump where's the value? > > It's about publishing info on projects. Thanks. "Gump is a social experiment. The primary goal of Gump is to get diverse projects to communicate early and often about integration, dependencies, and versioning management" from the homepage doesn't really say that it's about publishing info on projects. Sounds like that is more like the goal of Forrest: "Each project will be responsible for maintaining its own documentation and website, which are imported, aggregated and published automatically by Forrest. To achieve this goal, we provide XML document grammars for the different types of documents a projects website typically consists of, and a Cocoon-based site generation mechanism." > Gump already does it, and this completes the picture. Because users of Gump are dying for this at the moment? > Some tags can also be used to publish information and nags, ie nags can > be sent , by default, to the dev mailing list. Rather than to the nag email as specified in the descriptor? Sounds like duplicate information. > This would create a project descriptor that can be used conjunctly by > all Alexandria systems that operate on projects. Those being? I'd also be interested in hearing how the new descriptor format compares to the Centipede descriptor. Sounds awfully like Centipede imposing it's format on Gump to me. > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
