On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> All - we've got a little bug in the schema, outlined here:
>>
>> <http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17742/locators-zotero-216/>
>>
>> Basically, we need to change the 'sub verbo' locator value to 'sub-verso'.
>>
>> Any objections to doing that ASAP in a minor point release?
>>
>> I need a +1 or -1 one from all implementors please.
>
> ~~1
>
> I don't think there's a need to rush this. A workaround was used in
> 2.0.9 (testing for all locator labels that are not "sub verbo"). The
> workaround didn't work in citeproc-js because the locator attribute
> was not being handled correctly; with a fix in place, code from 2.0.9
> will carry over smoothly.
>
> A change in the term name should be tested in applications before
> release. There will be legacy documents around that set "sub verbo" as
> the locator label key, so processors will need to remap that to
> "sub-verbo" on the fly in any case, to avoid breaking documents, and
> we'll want to be sure the special handling needed works correctly
> before the locale files change underneath the processor.
>
> So I think it's desirable to move "sub verbo" to "sub-verbo", but I
> think the change can wait a bit for testing and reflection.

Let me put this is the most straightforward terms possible:

Any style that currently uses "sub verbo" as a condition is completely invalid.

So effectively, for implementations, it's as if the term doesn't exist
for purposes of conditional testing (e.g. you shouldn't be coding
citeproc-js to accept "sub verbo" as a condition in my view because
you're going out of your way to accept a broken style).

Therefore, I do think there's some urgency in fixing this; in say the
next couple of weeks. It's an infrequently enough used term that a
simple search-and-replace on the following repos should suffice:

- docs
- schema
- locales
- styles

That, plus rolling in the spec changes in author grouping should be a
reasonable 1.0.1 release.

Bruce

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