On 25 July 2014 09:37, Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> wrote: > El 24/07/14 22:33, Jim O'Regan ha escrit: >>> 1) The PMC should make a policy to deal with licensing.
It was actually Fran who wrote this. I think that's worth noting only because it pretty much sums up how we came to find ourselves with this mess! >> > >> >+1 > +1 > > I am too busy this week to deal with the details, sorry for the silence. > Would it be possible to have a proposal for action that could then be > adopted by the PMC? > There is a de facto standard for representing project metadata in a machine readable way: DOAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP), which is used by GNOME, Mozilla, and the Python Package Index, among others. (Among several tools for generating it, there's a web-based tool here: http://crschmidt.net/semweb/doapamatic/) I think the first step would be to have a policy on citations, and "citables". We have several packages with related papers, that give detailed information about the resources used (with relevant citations), but if there's no paper, there's nothing. There needs to be something between these extremes. For packages with a related paper, there should perhaps be a short summary, with citations (e.g., http://sourceforge.net/p/apertium/svn/56202); perhaps it would not be too excessive to require packages that do not to have a 'RESOURCES' file, containing the equivalent of the 'Existing resources' section that many of the papers have? One small step that could be taken with "citables" would be, where a packages *does* have a related paper, to add to the README the usual request for citation, and the bibtex for the paper (e.g., http://sourceforge.net/p/apertium/svn/56202) -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
