[tei-council] another High Noon proposal

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Fri Jan 11 12:10:45 EST 2013


Do we think we can come to a consensus and implement necessary changes 
in a week, then, with a commit freeze on the 22nd and release on the 
24th? We might easily argue for a week over this.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-01-11 09:03 AM, Hugh Cayless wrote:
> If we need to wait a week, that will be ok. If more, my schedule is a bit messier in February, but not so bad I couldn't find a day to work on the release. So that shouldn't be a factor.
>
> Hugh
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:50 , Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-01-11 16:45, Syd Bauman wrote:
>>> * Why is this urgent? I realize we had planned for a release of the
>>>    Guidelines soon (14th? 17th?), but why is that carved in stone? I'd
>>>    much prefer to get this right and push the release a week later.
>>
>> I think if this is going to involve any kind of a major change to the
>> current way of doing things, we want not to push next week's release
>> back by a week (which might be a problem for Hugh who has cleared a day,
>> for example), but to put off these changes until after this release, so
>> that we can have several months to spot problems in the Jinks versions
>> before we release again. (In other words, even a week isn't enough. This
>> is supposed to be a maintenance release, not a major new re-architecture.)
>>
>>> * Elli Mylonas mentioned the possibility of leaving the tagdoc page
>>>    looking pretty much as it does, but if element <foo> has deleted
>>>    attribute @bar from class att.duck, then the "@bar" would be
>>>    crossed out in the parenthetical list of attributes that follow
>>>    "att.duck". (Just an idea.)
>>
>> I like that idea, yes. It *might* be a little bit confusing for people
>> who don't know or care about attribute classes, but it would be pretty
>> transparent. (Especially if a tool-tip were to add "Does not inherit the
>> attribute @bar from att.duck" or similar.)
>>
>> G
>>
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