From: "Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library Interest?)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:58:32 GMT
Date: 2003-10-13T09:58:32+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> I don't want the (possibly volunteer) developers spending all their time
> dealing with naming issues--which as I pointed out can include trademark
> and copyright issues. That is the stuff that formal standards
> committees can be good at. Look at all the chaos caused by AdaPower
> once the site was no longer maintained. Having an authority to resolve
> naming disputes is very helpful when it comes time to clear the
underbrush.
*** Indeed it can get very complicated to manage those trademark and
copyright issues and as for naming, I can imagine for example
- Format as a Text Formatting string
- Format as an OS service to format a floppy drive or hard drive
- Format as Method of an object that produces an output.
All three with trademarks ;-). How much coffee would be needed to resolve
that one? ;-). In our library, provided these 3 situations are in 3 branches
of our Tree or at least in 3 ramifications of the same branch, there would
be no conflicts right?
Another situation I wonder about. Let's say GtkAda is registered already
along with it's hiearchy of libraries that form the GtkAda Project. Then I
decide to add to that library (say a series of controls for a Music studio
software, like knobs, led indicators, mixer slider controls, etc etc). and I
want those registered in the library. Who would be making the decision?
GtkAda, the committee, would I need to put it elsewhere in the tree, would
every big library like GtkAda need to have a "contributions" branch under it
for this kind of addition?
>
> But again, as I said, it is useless without a group of developers who
> want to do things right. With active developers using it, it becomes
> one of those committees where the chair does several hours of work a
> week. Everyone else on the committee does a couple hours of work every
> three or four months, when the chairperson actually needs the committee
> to make an official decision.
>
*** Are you saying that it would take 3 or 4 months to reach a decision for
every issue? or that every 3 or 4 months, the committee would take every in
the past 3 or 4 months and resolve them?
> --
> Robert I. Eachus
>
> "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the
> goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical,
> down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or
> down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair
> of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
>
--
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 17:33 Feasibility/Requirements/Wishes of xAL (was: Standard Library Interest?) Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-09 18:22 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-09 18:29 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-10 16:18 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-11 7:48 ` Martin Krischik
2003-10-12 11:13 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-11 21:56 ` Ching Bon Lam
2003-10-12 4:18 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-12 15:32 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 16:51 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-12 23:29 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 22:54 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-12 23:37 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-13 1:02 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-13 9:58 ` Stephane Richard [this message]
2003-10-13 19:58 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-13 20:57 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-13 12:13 ` Marin David Condic
2003-10-12 13:57 ` Freejack
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