Hi everyone, Bruce, Frank, Rintze, and I met this Monday to discuss the current state of CSL. This is the first of two e-mails summarizing our discussion, which is meant as a basis for a broader discussion here on the list. In this e-mail I'll talk about CSL infrastructure, the second one will be about CSL specifications/updates.
1. Moving style hosting to www.citationstyles.org We'd like to transition from zotero.org style ids, and offer both a GUI version of the style repository on citationstyles.org and serve styles from there (e.g. for auto-updating). We think this should be the top priority for 2016 We'll want a proper hosting solution for this and, if clients will want to rely on our site (rather than pulling from github the way Zotero & Mendeley currently do) for style updates. We also will want to hire someone to do this for us. (Elsevier/Mendeley has already announced they'll again support us, so we have a budget). Sylvester suggested someone to us, but if anyone here is interested or has recommendations, that'd be very welcome, too. Also, for any of the downstream users of the style--will a global change in style ids cause major headaches? Is there anything we can/should do to make the transition go smoothly? 2. Moving away from sourceforge Rintze has mentioned this before, but we'd like to look at moving away from sourceforge, which is increasingly spammy, sometimes unreliable, and of an uncertain future. We're thinking most likely www.discourse.org, with a paid hosting solution, but are open to alternatives. Also, we want to make sure that there's a way to get data out of Discourse before switching. We won't be able to transfer the list archive to discourse easily, but it'll keep existing on nabble.com 3. Achievements & Miscellanea: - Sylvester built us a nice bot that's currently screening pull requests and displaying greeting messages as well as pass/fail follow-ups for pull requests. It's working nicely. - As some of you may have seen, we have, with the agreement of the folks from Mendeley and Columbia Lib, moved the CSL visual editor into the citation-style-language github and have successfully updated styles and locales. At least for now, it seems easy enough to maintain that I'll be able to handle that, thanks to Steve Ridout's great documentation and coding of that project. - We'll also slightly reorganize repositories which contain lists of journals and styles by publishers for dependent styles and try to get these updated as soon as possible. Anyone who wants in on that (checking with publishers, tracking down new lists etc.) help would be very welcome. OK. That's it for infrastructure I believe. Please do chime in with concerns, disagreement, praise, or other ideas/priorities. Specification e-mail to follow later this weekend. Best, Sebastian -- Sebastian Karcher, PhD www.sebastiankarcher.com
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