On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:25:57PM -0500, Kendall Clark wrote:
> Speaking for myself only, as the LDP Core team hasn't talked about
> this much yet, though I suspect they will all agree, I think we can
> use LDP Core as the base for metadata schemas for several open source
> projects. My guess is that Debian, GNOME, and FreeBSD would share
> about 99% of this structure of LDP Core; and in that case, the name
> isn't terribly problematic.
It would have been nice if a heads-up had been posted to the FreeBSD
-doc list, asking if anyone wanted to participate in this a bit earlier.
I'm looking at the core element description at the moment, and it looks
interesting.
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> So, for example, GNOME Metadata would be, essentially, LDP Core + one
> or two GNOME-specific formal vocabularies. This would insure some
> level of interoperability.
Can I suggest that you try for a core that it is not Linux specific that
other projects have to customise, but go for something that could be
applied to pretty much any Doc. Proj., and then add customisations for
Linux in a separate layer.
For example
Entry Linux FreeBSD GNOME KDE
------------------------------------------------------------
COVERAGE.geographic X X X X
COVERAGE.distribution X
COVERAGE.kernel X
COVERAGE.architecture X
COVERAGE.os X X X X
only those entries that apply across all of them (or, say, more than two)
should be in the core. Anything else should be in a customisation layer
for that project.
I've picked four example projects up there, but that's certainly not a
complete list.
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