Hi, On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:15:56PM -0700, Robinson Tryon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:26 AM, David Tardon <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries . We need files for > > regression tests...isolated feature[s]...major > > features...[and new formats we don't yet support]. > > As these would be published in a regression test repository, > > we need an acknowledgement that they are available under CC-BY-SA > > (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license. > > CC-BY-SA 4.0 is out now: > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
All right. It would be probably better to use the newest version. > > > Concretely, we need files for [..a bunch of formats...] > > > > So what's our suggested workflow here? > > For the acknowledgement, I think that we should have a page > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Contributors > along the lines of > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers > and ask everyone to email the discuss@ list an appropriately-worded statement. Good idea. > > Donated files could go to > - A new list/alias document-donations@ An e-mail address like that could be used for getting documents from contributors. It would be a very poor way to make them available to developers. The problem is that TDF infra does not allow attachments for mailing lists. > - ownCloud > - An ftp server > - Or?? - git repo, possibly using git-annex + of course that does not solve the problem how to get the files from contributors. > > Alongside any donated files, I'd suggest that we ask people to include > the following: > - The file format(s) used > - The authoring programs (w/version # and OS, please) > - A rough overview of the contents (e.g. "My 5th grade papers", "test > documents with tables") > - Licensing information (another check on licensing, plus lets us know > if they are more permissive than CC-BY-SA, e.g. public domain) > - The name of the original author/source > - Source URL, if applicable If that kind of metadata should be of any use, we would need to keep the association between the metadata and the files. I suppose keeping each contribution in a separate directory would work for some time, but it does not scale. I would also add: - a PDF export or a screenshot (if possible) D. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentliberation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
