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On Mar 10, Greg Harvey decided to present us with:
>
> This is a hastily jotted format for the email submission
> format. Ideas, advice, and opinions appreciated (let's try to keep it
> at least pg-13, though ;')
I like it.
> Each contents of each field must be enclosed in parenthesis... easy to
> parse, easy to make sure that exactly what you think is being
> submitted is being submitted. The only annoyance this brings is the
> necessity to escape '()' in the text (do the \( \) thing).
So you can later write a Guile parser? ;-)
> %location (url): this should be a pointer to the homepage of the
> project, or the distribution if no page is available.
%mailing-list?
> %catagory (cat): this will be one of a set of pre-defined
> catagories. Basically, things like Application/Game or Library
> (module?)
How can I classify feast? :-) Game-engine?
> %author (name): the main author of the project (should this be authors?)
This gives the impression that there would be a field for
"other" authors. Perhaps call this "authors" but label "primary
authors" in the resulting page, and add "mailing-list" (enought
to find "other" authors).
Also, mailing-list should IMO contain either
mailto:subscribe-address or http://list.home/page
> %contact (addr): an email contact for the maintainer (should this be
> folded into author(s)?)
I think it should. It's how we're used to see things (like email
headers).
> 1) Modification history of the various fields (how much will this
> cost, though... and how long should each bit of history be kept? I
> have no idea about the capacity of the host here).
Keep 2 previous versions of everything just to have an "undo",
but keep _all_ previous versions of "status" (and perhaps
"author"). IMHO.
[]s,
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