Hi, On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:07:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > [Blends list in CC because it concerns general Blends issues] > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:31:09PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > No, the way I "hacked" the citations for MPQC and CP2K in the obsolete > > (and possibly the current debian/upstream) system is exactly as the > > authors wish/requerst. It *is* the canonical citation for those > > packages. So if we are serious about "Please cite as:", we should > > provide a way for our users to use the upstream citation, even if that > > is not a publication. > > I thought about this issue and came to the following conclusion: > > 1. Your way to add "Please cite as" is a missuse of the publication > field (as you probably agree because you wrote "hacked") and to > clarify this I will rename the rendering on the tasks pages to > > "Publication(s)" > > (Please provide an even better wording if this remains missleading)
This sounds fine, I suggested "Further information" in another mail (the fact that the further information is publications should be clear from the content), but both are fine. > 2. To support your need I would suggest to add another (different!) > section called > > "Site as" > > For the moment I will not provide a way to propagate this information > from the tasks files to the web sentinel pages because I think this > should also be assembled in debian/upstream files. To enable this > I added the field "Cite-As" to the debian/upstream definition[1]. > > The definition says: > > "The value is a string which might contain a link in valid HTML > syntax." > > I'm not entirely sure whether this is the best way to cope with this > but IMHO it should be flexible enough for the moment and should do > what you want to do. I think if possible it would be best to use the content of Cite-as if available. If it is empty, use the first entry of the Publication field (like now), and use the other entries for the above "Publication(s):" fields. Not sure this is possibly in the current framework, though. > 3. Once the implementation of the References is in a somehow stable > state I will parse the debian/upstream files for the following > values to propagate them onto the web sentinel pages: > > Cite-As (see above) > Donation (we just have this in the tasks files) > Registration (we just have this in the tasks files) > Screenshots (not sure about that, but seems to be reasonable) > > This should solve your problem and finally would enable cleaning > up the tasks files also from Donation and Registration data. > > What do you think? Sounds good. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
