On Thursday 09 July 2009 22:19:59 Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > Following up on the discussion about freedesktop.org at GCDS and the > additional input on the mailing list, I wrote down a specification for the > process how to manage freedesktop.org specifications. It's based on the > consensus we built at GCDS plus the input which came from Aaron and others > before and after the meetings. > > To bootstrap the process I wrote it down as a freedesktop.org specification > following the proposed process. You can find the text at > http://gitorious.org/~cornelius/xdg-specs/xdg-specs-spec0/blobs/master/spec >ifications/SpecificationProcess/specification.txt > > Please have a look and comment.
* Could do with a spell check and s/it's/its/ as appropriate. * "The GNOME and KDE communities have to take into account the needs and feedback of other communities as well" This needs more work. * ### Specification Sources How and where will the intentions of the desktop projects be recorded? * The sources for freedesktop.org specifications are hosted in a git repository at <http://gitorious.org/xdg-specs>. Perhaps mention that this is pending whether XDG.org will provide adequate git hosting. * ### Namespaces for Development of new Interfaces If an implementor intends to use a namespace under org.freedesktop to develop a new D-Bus interface specification, there has to be submitted a namespace specification stating the namespace and the intended use. An _implementor_ choosing a namespace seems wrong - isn't this the job of the spec drafter? * Generic namespace names should be only accepted, if there is a high chance of the interface under it being accepted as well. Vague and everyone will think that their org.freedesktop.SlicedBread namespace will probably be expected. Perhaps have a stricter condition for generic (but then how do you define 'generic') namespace names such as more than simple GNOME/KDE acceptance? * Example specification metadata mismatched <revision> tags :P specversion and revnumber appear to be different words for the same thing.. HTH Will > The next step would be to work in your comments, and when this is done to > merge it back to the main repository and get approval by the release teams. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
