[tei-council] some formatting thoughts -- reference documentation

[Christian Wittern]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Syd Bauman wrote:
>   
>> there is no reason whatsoever to arbitrarily not
>> provide useful information if it happens not to be available until,
>> say, December.
>>   
>>     
>
> I suggest that when release 1.0 is done, you can start work
> on a 1.1 branch, which includes changes to guidelines.xsl which
> makes the HTML, and make it available under its own terms.
>   

This looks like a better plan to me.

>> Again, formatting is pretty disjoint from content.
>>     
> I agree, it is not the same thing. But, to me, its part of the
> package.
>   
>> .... making changes to the formatting does not
>> have untoward effects on users. 
>>   
>>     
> Agreed; so this is not covered by the Birnbaum Accord,
> and its open for the Council (or possibly Board) to  play
> it how they like. I'm interested to hear whether others
> have a view on this?
>   
Well, I do not agree to the above statement.  I think the user 
experience depends very much on how the material is presented and small 
changes can be quite confusing to users.  So I would take the view that 
we stop tinkering with the 1.0 branch and do only bug fixes there.  But 
I guess the development model following 1.0 is something we should 
schedule for discussion *after* Nov 01.


Christian

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