[tei-council] Council Teleconference Monday 21 October 4pm Oxford time.

[James Cummings]

On 21/10/13 13:59, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> I'm generally supportive of that idea as well. Would it make
>> sense to do it in conjunction with the TEI Conference? Or another
>> conference like DH2014?
> probably DH, since the idea is to excite people about TEI

Good idea.  Are you volunteering to organise it and liaise with 
the ppl in Lausanne?

>> It seems reasonable to re-examine the issue.  In general I'd
>> argue a conservative tack here since we came up with a policy
>> when creating P5, as part of the Birnbaum Doctrine, and with the
>> specific idea that P5 would continue to have successive versions.
>
> sure. call it TEI NG instead of P6 if you want. my view would be a TEI fork,
> rather than a replacement for P5

I call that a customisation. It can be a significant one, by why 
isn't it that? What makes it a new version rather than just a 
customisation of the current release?


>> I think included in such a discussion should also be our release
>> structure within P5 more generally. Not really the process, but
>> the structure. There might be benefits if we move to a 'stable'
>> vs 'development' kind of structure as seen in many projects.
> true. but I'd regard that as a separate issue

Sure, but if reconsidering P6, then wish considering that as well.

> I'm talking about (e.g.) TEI as RDF, or TEI as HTML class values,
> not something which competes with XML

Do you mean as a documented output format? Or as the encoding 
format itself obeying the same abstract model?

-James


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