On 13/01/12 01:14, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 10/01/12 00:41, Ximin Luo wrote: >> On 08/01/12 05:30, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 03:22:04PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>>> Ximin Luo wrote: >>> >>>>> OK, understood. I will take a look at creating a patch for copyright-format.xml >>>>> like you did. However, I think I would prefer using an explicit grammar instead >>>>> (e.g. the sort that programming language specifications use), because that >>>>> leads to clearer thinking and less ambiguity. >>> >>>>> Which would you prefer? >>> >>>> That's up to Steve, since he's the editor of the document. >>> >>>> I am personally of two minds --- on one hand, I would like to see the >>>> copyright-format released quickly, which means making only minimal >>>> changes to the document. On the other hand, an explicit grammar would >>>> indeed make the details of the spec easier to understand. >>> >>>> I guess if I were in your shoes, I'd keep a grammar in mind and make >>>> sure the text specifies it unambiguously but use plain text so as to >>>> make the changes not too invasive. >>> >>> It would be nice to have a formal grammar down the line, but that's also too >>> large of a change for 1.0. >>> >> >> Alright, I've set aside some time to work on this. I've checked out the SVN, >> installed the build-deps (docbook-utils tidy), will send a patch soon. >> >> X >> > > Patch attached. I moved some stuff around as well, but not that much; hopefully > the description is clear enough to explain everything. > > X > Hello again! Does anyone have any comments on this? I see Charles Plessy has made some extra changes to DEP5 in SVN since I created this patch, on 2012-02-02 (yesterday). Those changes don't conflict with this patch, but could people have a look at it before any future changes do? I could commit this directly to SVN if you guys prefer? (I've not tried yet, since I don't know if I have access, and I don't want something to go wrong.) X -- GPG: 4096R/5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0 https://bitbucket.org/infinity0 https://launchpad.net/~infinity0
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