[georss] Creative Commons
Allan Doyle
adoyle at eogeo.org
Thu Jun 8 16:30:06 EDT 2006
On Jun 8, 2006, at 16:15, Marc wrote:
> Hi
>
>> In all cases, the folks doing development work using a given spec or
>> standard can feed enhancement/change requests into the organization
>> maintaining that spec or standard.
>>
> I think this is the important point in this discussion. How is the
> GeoRSS standard going to evolve? Who is maintaining it? Who decides
> which direction to take?
1. Someone turns what we have into a document and commits it to svn.
Call that version 0.1
2. Any new changes are discussed, and when we hit consensus, they get
made in the document and we bump the version number
3. At some point we all feel good about it and call it 1.0
4. Repeat 2 and 3 for 1.1 --> 2.0
Or forget the fancy numbering and just use SVN Revision numbers.
Anyone writing code should say what version numbers their code is
designed for.
Once we hit the right level of functionality, we stop. My vote on
stopping is sooner rather than later. I also prefer that changes be
backwards compatible unless there's a real overarching reason to
break that.
I do think we need a document rather than a web site as the normative
version. I would not be averse to an 80 column ASCII (or is that
UTF-8 these days) format.
So who is "we"? In OGC and W3C, it's the people who paid to be there.
I would prefer to have "we" be chosen under some criteria other than
money.
Allan
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
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