On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
> So before I think more on details, is the key to your suggestion the
> "versioned documents" bit?

That, plus (in a single location) definite guidelines on what should
go into a proposal, and a clear statement of the workflow that leads
from proposal stage to adoption, rejection, or revision.


>
> On Apr 20, 2011 5:15 PM, "Frank Bennett" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm busy, but a thought ....
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Avram Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear xbibliophiles,
>>>>
>>>> If I can revive a thread that predates my membership on this list:
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26738384
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to drag this proposal into a sufficiently mature shape to get
>>>> it on track for CSL 1.1 or so, since it has major implications for my
>>>> own scholarly work. Frank's summary of the needs for Asian scholarship
>>>> is just about the same as we need for Russian and Tatar scholarship as
>>>> well. In those cases, the bulk of the behavior changes is that the
>>>> terms should come from the locale that corresponds to the language of
>>>> the reference (in cases of Russian, English and occasionally in other
>>>> languages, either local (Tatar) or international (French)).
>>>>
>>>> The proposal of setting default-locale and specifying locale on
>>>> <layout> tags, proposed by Frank on December 10, looks like a good
>>>> start:
>>>> <style ... default-locale="ja-JP">
>>>> ...
>>>> <citation>
>>>>  <layout locale="en" delimiter="; " suffix=".">
>>>>    <text macro="citation-macro-2"/>
>>>>  </layout>
>>>>  <layout delimiter="。" suffix="。">
>>>>    <text macro="citation-macro-1"/>
>>>>  </layout>
>>>> </citation>
>>>> ...
>>>> </style>
>>>>
>>>> My only addition to this is that I think there's room for a global
>>>> option that would put localized terms in the language of the
>>>> reference, if the language is specified and the locale is defined.
>>>> Otherwise, there we'll have to add a lot of locale-based logic to
>>>> cover the common case of European styles that use
>>>> reference-language-appropriate terms for several common scholarly
>>>> languages. My only concern with such a global option is that we might
>>>> want to be able to restrict it to a set of locales, defined within the
>>>> style.
>>>
>>> Given how high a premium we want to put on stability and compatibility
>>> going forward, I think we probably need to evolve how we deal with
>>> these sorts of enhancement requests.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we need a few sections?
>>>
>>> - use case (what needs to be done from a user perspective?)
>>> - requirements (what needs to be done from a programming perspective?)
>>> - proposed syntax changes (how, concretely, will this impact the schema?)
>>> - proposed specification language changes (how will this impact the
>>> spec?)
>>> - compatibility (what impact will this have on existing 1.0
>>> implementations? etc.)
>>>
>>> And perhaps we do this via the github issue tracker, which includes
>>> support for markdown?
>>
>> I'm busy too. :)
>>
>> I don't think the issue tracker will work for discussions like this. A
>> proposals "project" in github, containing versioned documents, might
>> be more appropriate. Something along the lines of Python PEP:
>>
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/
>>
>> I used to work with Plone, which uses a similar proposal system that
>> they call PLIP. The admin document that describes how they fit in to
>> the overall development workflow is here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plone-strategic-planning/plone-community-processes
>>
>> Note this comment by Jon Stah:
>>
>> "Jon: doesn't feel like we have much formal process around PLIPs
>> before they are submitted with code to the framework team. I'd love
>> others' opinions here."
>>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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