[tei-council] standoff

[Martin Holmes]

On 14-11-27 09:35 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> 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?

They're definitely different -- <xenoData> (still like that) as a child 
of <teiHeader> and <ldb> (too mysterious, I think) as a child of <TEI> 
-- but I think we discussed the latter briefly while talking about the 
former.

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

Absolutely. And actually what brought everything together on the 
CorrespDesc proposal was I think settling on <correspAction>, which 
clarified that we were all talking about the same thing. But it does 
seem that we get bogged down in name discussions for long periods of time.

Cheers,
Martin

> -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.
>>>
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