"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:3F89F96F.5050003@comcast.net...
>
> 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 once the site was no longer maintained.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
>



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