standards track for FD.o (was Re: Allowing apps to install packages)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 06 March 2006 09:09, Mike Hearn wrote:
>  On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:48:27 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>  > please read and comment. if there is general support for it, let's
>  > nike[1]
>
>  Looks good! Bringing stakeholders in from outside the GNOME/KDE/X triad is
>  IMHO important and currently not done as well as it could be.

agreed... even we have problems ourselves trying to define clearly the status 
of certain elements. i've discovered that it's still news for many people 
outside of KDE (e.g. GNOME devs) that we're moving to DBUS in kde4; with a 
proper tagging system on freedesktop.org this wouldn't be nearly the 
challenge it is right now.

this will require some additional software dev done for the freedesktop.org 
website. as i understand it's a wiki, though i have no idea which one or how 
extensible it is. who is the current webmaster for fd.o?

>  (I'm thinking of stakeholders like commercial/proprietary ISVs, WineHQ,
>  etc .... also getting a handle on the ways distributions/desktops fork
>  from the spec is vital)

yes, it was at least partly written with this in mind. which is why the 
wording is so amazingly manageresque. i "love" author-by-committee ;)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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