On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 12:19, Daniel Stone wrote: > So, for the freedesktop.org Platform v1.0, the date of July 31st has > slipped to accommodate several factors: post-OLS discussion, the new > standardisation effort that has sprung up that looks like massively > paralleling the platform, and more. To clarify, the "standarization process" referred to here is a proposal to have "specifications releases" every 6 months to force us to actually finish and publish the specifications that are done (XDG basedir specification, desktop file specification, startup notification, and so forth.) While it was initially proposed that specifications would be part of the platform release, I think this is a bad idea for a number of reasons: - A specification is about multiple applications inter-operating; so the criteria for compatibility and being "done" are very different than for a library. - The end-product is different - the platform release produces a set of tarballs, the specification release produces a list of specification. - The platform release is going to be enough work without throwing in a bunch of unrelated tasks that don't *have* to be part of the platform release. So I don't see any duplication, much less massive duplication between the specification and platform releases. They will be coordinated as appropriate, they don't need to be the same. Regards, Owen
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