[tei-council] support for P4

[Laurent Romary]

Kind-of interfering with JU's questionnaire, but why not. We would play our role by doing this.


Le 26 sept. 2011 à 17:50, Martin Holmes a écrit :

> I'd like to see something relating to P6:
> 
> 
> I think that:
> 
>  - The TEI should focus only on revisions to P5 for next couple of years.
> 
>  - The TEI should begin soliciting ideas for the most substantial 
> changes in P6.
> 
>  - The TEI should start working on a detailed plan for P6 immediately.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> On 11-09-26 03:39 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>> Back in June Council mostly seemed to agree that the timetable I
>> laid out below was sensible for de-emphasising TEI P4 a year
>> before we stop supporting it in November 2012.
>> 
>> In the next week or so I was going to post a message to TEI-L
>> explaining that from November 2011 we'll be de-emphasising TEI P4
>> on the website in preparation for its lack of support from
>> November 2012. I was going to include a surveymonkey survey at
>> the same time allowing feedback from the community to gauge the
>> strength of their dependence on or desire for support of TEI P4.
>> (As well as gather some other data.)
>> 
>> Questions that occur to me to include in this survey are below,
>> but if Council has any other suggestions, or corrections, let me
>> know in the next few days.
>> 
>> ====
>> Do you have projects still using TEI P4 that need support?
>> - I have active and ongoing projects using TEI P4 which will not
>> migrate to TEI P5
>> - I have active and ongoing projects using TEI P4 but I may
>> migrate these to TEI P5
>> - I continue to support legacy projects using TEI P4 which I
>> might migrate to TEI P5
>> - I continue to support legacy projects using TEI P4 which I
>> won't migrate to TEI P5
>> - I have legacy TEI P4 projects, but they need little support
>> - I have migrated any TEI P4 projects to TEI P5
>> - I have no TEI P4 projects needing support
>> 
>> How much should the TEI-C begin de-emphasise TEI P4 on the
>> website before November 2012?
>> - It should only be available from the TEI Vault and not
>> mentioned elsewhere
>> - It should only be available from the TEI Vault but existing
>> links redirected
>> - It should be available from the TEI Vault but seamlessly
>> mirrored in its current location
>> - It should not be moved to the Vault but remain where it is
>> 
>> Should search engines be dissuaded from indexing TEI P4?
>> - TEI P4 should not be indexed and links to it not followed
>> - TEI P4 should not be indexed
>> - TEI P4 should continue to be indexed
>> - TEI P4 should continue to be indexed and links to it followed
>> 
>> Have you used TEI P5 for a project?
>> - Yes
>> - No
>> - I'm about to
>> 
>> How many TEI P4 projects do you have?
>> - 0
>> - 1
>> - 2-5
>> - 6-15
>> - 16-30
>> - more than 30
>> 
>> How many TEI P5 projects do you have?
>> - 0
>> - 1
>> - 2-5
>> - 6-15
>> - 16-30
>> - more than 30
>> 
>> Have you submitted a Bug or Feature Request to the TEI?
>> - I have submitted both Bugs and Feature Requests directly on
>> Sourceforge
>> - I have submitted either a Bug or a Feature Request directly on
>> Sourceforge
>> - I have submitted either a Bug or a Feature Request via a TEI
>> Council member or other individual
>> - I have contributed to discussions on TEI-L which have informed
>> Bug or Feature Requests
>> - I have not contributed a Bug or Feature Request but intend to
>> - I have not contributed a Bug or Feature Request
>> - What are Bugs or Feature Requests?
>> ====
>> 
>> 
>> Suggestions appreciated.
>> 
>> -James
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 14/06/11 10:04, James Cummings wrote:
>>> Could I suggest that the appropriate time to have a de-emphasis
>>> of TEI P4 is in November 2011.  I suggest this because that is
>>> exactly one calendar year before we stop support for P4.  We
>>> promised 5 years ongoing support for TEI P4 from November 2007.
>>> In November 2011 we could de-emphasize it by doing the following
>>> things as Sebastian suggests:
>>> 
>>> - Freeze any support of it except major bugs (if we've not done
>>> this already)
>>> - Demote its visibility in the TEI-C Website
>>> - Change the robots.txt to encourage search engines to forget
>>> about it.
>>> - Remind people that they have a year to stop using it.
>>> 
>>> In November 2012 I'd suggest that it appears only in the Vault
>>> and that the TEI Guidelines page not have any mention of it. (As
>>> it has no mention of other versions like TEI P3, but does have a
>>> link to the TEI Archive which contains them).
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Martin Holmes
> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
> (mholmes at uvic.ca)
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Laurent Romary
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