[tei-council] Options for freezing and/or archiving Lite

[James Cummings]

On 12/08/12 19:43, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> obviously it would remain accessible if you know the URL (ie by following
> links from the web page. But it would not appear in eg oXYgen,
> in any of the distribution stes, in Roma etc. So this would be fairly dramatic.

Why would this necessarily be the case? Couldn't the build 
process copy the pre-built vault copy to the right place for the 
oxygen-tei framework?


> I have a pragmatic suggestion - keep Lite in full support
> _until_ there is a replacement. And that could be the TEI
> in Libraries set; though I have many reservations whenever
> I look at that, I think the approach is correct.

If we wanted to do that, would it be better not to have the 
Council produce this customisation but the community?  (I.e. 
Council could suggest to the Board that the Community Grants, if 
it does them, should be focussed on producing an 80/20 
customisation with documentation and examples.) Though there are 
down sides to this as well.  Or do we feel that this is something 
that should be under Council control?

> Are we really prepared to have no fully supported 80/20 customization
> of the TEI in circulation? if we thinks thats the right place to be,
> then lets archive Lite fully in the Vault and there's an end to it; otherwise,
> maintain it fully. The intermediate frozen one seems (to me)
> the worst sort of vacillation.

I'm for archiving it, but making it available in oxygen-tei and 
clearly from the website and from Roma. I don't think it is wrong 
to have something actively available but frozen and archived.

> If we opt for archiving, then we need do nothing in fact.
> Lite is part of each TEI P5 release, and fully available in the
> Vault.

We would need to rewrite the page on Lite to mention that it has 
been frozen, and inform the community (possibly soliciting 
replacements).

-James

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Dr James Cummings, researchsupport at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford