On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 20:46, Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote: > Where even are any of the values in this format defined? The DOAP link > in the proto XEP just links to a giant blob of XML which is not useful. > > Every time I go through trying to create one of these I end up with a > million questions that I can't actually get answers to. This format is > not that widely used and isn't actually useful. > > Just as a quick example, if I wanted to set the <os> property that I see > used in the example, what are the valid values? Or is it text? Can I > have multiple of them? Are they comma separated, or multiple elements? > etc. None of that is defined by this XEP, and I don't know where I would > even start to find out. > > A minute or two of searching found me this via Wikipedia: https://github.com/ewilderj/doap
It's not great, I agree, but it's much better than inventing our own from scratch. > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, at 20:27, Matthew Wild wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 19:43 Sam Whited, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I do not believe this is an appropriate technology whether it's an > > > existing specification or not. It's just too complicated. > > > > It's really not. It's also easy to generate, so feel free to have a > > different canonical format for your projects (a Lua DSL does tempt me, > > personally...). > > > > But for external tools to collect and gather data from an array of > > projects, DOAP is the existing standard interchange format for this > > kind of data and we should use it. > > > > The alternative is some custom format that we will need to bikeshed, > > document, version and maintain. I'm not keen on it. > > > > Regards, Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > > Standards mailing list Info: > > https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: > Standards- > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > > > -- > Sam Whited > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ >
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