On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> An aside:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Sebastian Karcher
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > ... The obvious expectation would be that you validate any
> >> > style before committing it - as Rintze explains the repository is for
> >> > valid csl 1.0 styles only (we're e.g. also not committing styles with
> >> > csl 1.0.1 features even when they're already functional in citeproc-js
> >> > and thus Zotero).
> >>
> >> I'm leery about this (until now, I believe, unstated) policy. The very
> >> logic of our schema versioning plans suggests any 1.0x style should be
> >> included in the repo the same as any other.
> >>
> >> So why are we doing this?
> >
> > Because CSL 1.0.1 hasn't been released yet?
>
> OK; fair enough.


This raises a point about our way of handling releases though. If we could
be confident that CSL processors wouldn't break by new elements and/or
attributes, we could move to a more fluid release schedule where features
can be added to styles in the repo once consensus has been reached to
include those features into the next CSL release.

Rintze
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