[tei-council] Criteria for TEI Repository Inclusion

[Kevin Hawkins]

James, thanks for bringing up this important issue.  Whether or not code 
is stored in SF is related to the question of what is required for a 
customization or other code to be maintained by the TEI-C.  I think at 
the moment we are operating under the assumption that only code in 
SourceForge is maintained by the TEI-C and that in order for something 
to be maintained by the TEI-C, it has to be in SF.  However, this need 
not be the case.

--Kevin

On 02/03/2010 16:58, James Cummings wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We were having a discussion recently about a TEI Customisation that we
> created for the ENRICH project and its future maintenance.  Although I
> believe we're leaning in favour of setting up a separate Sourceforge or
> Google Code repository for it and managing it separately from the TEI SF
> repository, somehow 'donating' it to the TEI-C was suggested at one
> point.  While I frankly think it is better for such things to be managed
> separately form the TEI, it made me realise that we don't seem to have a
> set policy on when something (an ODD, a piece of software, etc.) gets
> included in the TEI SF repository and when it doesn't.
>
> Currently we have directories for the following:
>
> Carthage
> Documents
> Extensions
> genetic
> I18N
> javalib
> jerusalem
> P4toP5
> P5
> P5-Council
> passivetex
> Roma
> Stylesheets
> Stylesheets2
> TEIC
> TEICSS
> tei-emacs
> TEIOO
> TEIWORD
> Vesta
>
>
> And of course a number of ODD files in P5/Exemplars/ which are the
> templates provided in Roma.
>
> The question is when a new piece of software or important TEI
> Customisation is being created, when should it be considered part of the
> TEI SF repository and when should it be hosted elsewhere?
>
> One thing to bear in mind is that the TEI SF SVN repository does not
> give fine-grained access.  If you give access to personX as a developer
> on it, then they have the ability to add/change/edit the whole of the
> TEI Guidelines and any of the software above.  Currently I'm just trying
> to have us think about when something should be part of this repository
> or not, and under what circumstances we might 'adopt' things that the
> TEI-C itself did not create.  However, I could see good arguments for
> making things like the Stylesheets, Roma, Vesta, TEIOO, etc. separate SF
> or other projects at some point in the future.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -James
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