[tei-council] Release guidelines

[James Cummings]

On 11/12/13 14:53, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 11 Dec 2013, at 13:41, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the clarification. I have to admit I actually never(?)
>>> use(d) the Vault. So, this is a simple copy of the Sourceforge
>>> repository which is created by hand by the webmaster? (the process is
>>> not mentioned in the build instructions at
>>> http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw22.xml …)
>>
>> I think this happens as part of step 7, due to the magic of the
>> tei-install.sh script.
>
> the old versions are not copies of the Sourceforge repo, but
> copies of the compiled distribution package. Far from the same thing...

Yes, they are a mirror of the release, which then enables people 
to compare versions and always link to their preferred version of 
P5. (i.e. so their ODD can always be pointing at the Guidelines 
source for the version they choose to use, and they can look at 
its Guidelines/reference pages/etc.) 
http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/P5/ also always has a 'current' 
symlink which points to the latest version. The main release on 
the website really is just an webserver redirect to this location 
(so the release really is always coming from the Vault).

-James

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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
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