Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:18:45 +0200 | Subject | ASI: Maintainers/Credits |
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ASI (Another Silly Idea): What about converting the files Maintainers and Credits into SGML (HTML)?
I think that a lot of EMail addresses and HTTP references could benefit from it, especially that almost everybody has a WWW browser nowadays.
For the Maintainers we could have to projects (programs) on top with references to the people involved. There an URL from the individual people could reference even an entry in the Credits file (intead of referring to an address within the Maintainers file). Thus we would even have less redundancy (addresses only stored once).
I would even volunteer to make the initial change. Currently I'm not subscribed to the list, so if you want to be sure that I receive your comments, add me to the CC:.
Finally, even if the file format will stay the same, we could finally agree whether the source tree should be US_ASCII (i.e. 7bit), or ISO 8859 Latin 1 (8bit, Linux default). Currently the Maintainers file is 8bit, but there was a heavy (you'll remember) discussion about 8bit characters and MIME's quoted printable encapsulation. Just assuming ESMTP/8bit is a violation to existing Internet standards (e.g. our mail hub will strip the 8th bit from all characters).
8bit characters are a problem when attaching patches to 7bit EMail with no global MIME support. For personal reasons I would vote for global MIME support, because you might be able to chose your EMail frontend, but not your mail hub. Then we can happily send out the things as we want to have it (8bit).
My intention was not starting another flame war, but to move to some standards.
Ulrich
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