On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> Personally, I would really like to see the process of submitting
>> styles to the repository become more automated. Sebastian Karcher,
>> Charles Parnot and I spend a lot of time handling style submissions.
>> The volume of style submissions has increased quite a bit over the
>> past year, and a large fraction of the work is just making sure that
>> the submissions are done correctly. While I have tried to document the
>> process as clearly as possible for users, we still deal with a lot of
>> incorrect GitHub pull requests, submissions of invalid CSL styles and
>> style metadata that hasn't been entered correctly. My motivation to
>> continue to perform this labor for free has its limits, so I welcome
>> any thoughts on how to lessen this burden.
>
> I think this is the key, and as you suggest, is not really sustainable.
>
> So the question is how we address:
>
> 1) what the project would be to fix the problem? Is it a full-blown
> repository web app, for example, that could tightly integrate with the
> editor, that had the sort of broader review model I've previously
> advocated (e.g. that makes it easy and attractive for non-technical
> users to become style editors and reviewers)?
>
> 2) how do we fund it?
>
> On 2, I'm not really sure, but think some kind of logical
> institutional home would be helpful. What would be the appropriate
> medium and forum for us to explore different options (like, if a grant
> app, who would do it, and how?) here?
>
> Bruce
For an institutional home, maybe (maybe) an active university consortium.
http://www.universitas21.com/about
or
http://www.sakaiproject.org/about-sakai
Not sure if one could capture the collective attention of one of these
projects, but the interests seem to align reasonably well.
Frank
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