Technically, no, but this approach keeps the decision process open, clear, and simple. There have been individuals who have questioned the openness of the decision making process for EML. Making it clear how this works is useful to the community. If we create a private list for voting and decision making, I'm sure there would be even more critiques of our process. Second, we only have votes like this once or twice a year, and so the volume of mail is quite low even when we generate the 10 or so emails associated with a vote.<div>
<br></div><div>Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Robert Muetzelfeldt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.muetzelfeldt@ed.ac.uk">r.muetzelfeldt@ed.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hey, guys, do we really need to send everyone's individual response to
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On 19/11/10 09:47, Mark Servilla wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Matt Jones
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<div>A little over a month ago Ben announced the availability of a
release candidate for EML 2.1.1. The major changes in this release are
focused on better support for multi-language translations of textual
metadata. Specific structures have been added to clarify the base
language for an EML document and to allow textual fields to be provided
in multiple languages. The links below provide the relevant technical
details. I propose that the EML project release eml-2.1.1-rc1 as the
official EML 2.1.1 release (eml-2.1.1). EML Project members, please
respond with your vote by next Friday (one of Approve, Neutral, Deny).
We'll tally the votes the following week.</div>
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<div>Blankman</div>
<div>Brunt</div>
<div>Gries</div>
<div>MJones: Approve</div>
<div>CJones</div>
<div>O'Brien</div>
<div>Ramsey</div>
<div>Schildhauer</div>
<div>Servilla</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:53 PM, ben
leinfelder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leinfelder@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">leinfelder@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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EML community members -<br>
I've gone ahead and tagged the EML repository as a first release
candidate for v2.1.1 (internationalization).<br>
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The SVN repository for this tag:<br>
<a href="https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/eml/tags/RELEASE_EML_2_1_1_RC_1/" target="_blank">https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/eml/tags/RELEASE_EML_2_1_1_RC_1/</a><br>
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The updated documentation can be found on our development server:<br>
<a href="http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/" target="_blank">http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/</a><br>
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Specifically section 2.8 that includes example EML snippets:<br>
<a href="http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/#N101A3" target="_blank">http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/#N101A3</a><br>
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And the module level docs:<br>
<a href="http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-resource.html#i18nNonEmptyStringType" target="_blank">http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-resource.html#i18nNonEmptyStringType</a><br>
<a href="http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-text.html#i18nString" target="_blank">http://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-text.html#i18nString</a><br>
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Please take a look at the changes that have been included in this
candidate and provide comments.<br>
Thanks,<br>
-ben<br>
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