[tei-council] standoff

[James Cummings]

On 27/11/14 16:48, Martin Holmes wrote:
> IIRC, we did briefly discuss this at Council this month, when talking
> about another ticket, and I don't remember any opposition to it at all.
> The only thing I recall our arguing about in the past was the name. I
> wish we didn't spend so much time worrying about tag names.

Are we confusing two tickets here? There is the standoff element 
one and the external metadata one. They are, presumably, quite 
different?

Names have meaning and power... often power to confuse and 
mislead if chosen in haste.

-James

>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 14-11-27 07:24 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> from the TEI mailing list:
>>
>>
>>> On 27 Nov 2014, at 15:18, Piotr Bański <bansp at o2.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Peter and all,
>>>
>>> I'm emotionally ready (sob, sob) to hand this ticket over to a better
>>> pusher.
>>>
>>> On the subject of a weekly commitment: I don't think I can commit to
>>> anything of this sort until the end of the year at least. I could
>>> imagine pushing other stuff away and focusing on this for two days of a
>>> small and dedicated workshop. But, errm, we've done that before.
>>>
>>> So maybe this time we would need to start with a very clear commitment
>>> from the Council, up front, to focus on the results as soon as they
>>> arrive, rather than glide over them as it happened the last time, in my
>>> biased view.
>>>
>>
>> We have a telco scheduled for December 5th. We _could_ decide to devote that
>> to the long-deferred <standoff> ticket.
>>
>> can you imagine how happy Piotr would be? unrecognizable, probably.
>> --
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>> Director (Research) of Academic IT
>> University of Oxford IT Services
>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
>> Não sou nada.
>> Nunca serei nada.
>> Não posso querer ser nada.
>> À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
>>


-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford