punting on beta9

[Owen Eddins]

Matt,

I'm done with all my content changes.  I will check in what I have at the
end of the day today.  All I'm doing now is documenting everything and
format changes which is laborious and grim work, but I guess it needs to be
done.  I'll be out all day Monday, but certainly by the end of the day
Wednesday I can have everything done.

Owen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Jones" <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>
To: "eml-dev" <eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: punting on beta9


> Hey,
>
> There are a number of modules that have not yet been finished, so we are
> going to have to wait on the release of beta9.  I propose we shoot for
> the end of next week to package the release.  Can everyone be done their
> modules by say Wednesday?
>
> I'm making headway on the packaging changes and have been discussing at
> leat 5 alternative technologies for satisfying our requirements while
> simplifying our system.  We are leaning towards ID/IDREF from XML, or
> key/keyref from XML Schema, or XLink.  They all have some fatal flaw
> with regards to our goals, and their similarities are deep, so the
> choice may be somewhat arbitrary.  This packaging/linking issue is also
> tightly bound to the "distribution" element in resource, and what it
> means to have an external link.  I'll try to send an email Monday that
> outlines a proposed approach.  Sorry for the delay -- its been confusing
> work.
>
> These packaging changes, as well as copyright and namespace changes,
> will need to be layered on top of all of the other module changes that
> you are making, so it would be good if you could try to wrap up your
> module changes by the middle of next week.
>
> Thanks for all of the work!
> Matt
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