18 Feb
2017
18 Feb
'17
7:09 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 07:40:16PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
Sounds good, although I might offer one slight
twist. I think
organizations should be the higher bit not systems, doc etc....
I'll disagree, mainly because of what we have currently in terms of
applications and documentation.
At present, in these categories we have:
- Circuit_Design Festoon Portable_CC Shoppa_Tapes Usenix_77
Early_C_Compilers Macro-11 README Software_Tools Algol68
Em_Editor OpenLook Ritter_Vi Spencer_Tapes
- AUUGN Books Emails OralHistory PUPS Papers TUHS Unix_Review
- various system setup docs
Except for the last category, all the existing applications and documentation
are not easily classifiable into <organisation>. So I think it would be
better to have a generic top-level Applications and Documentation directories.
We can move the system setup docs into specific system areas.
I don't mind having <organisation> top-level directories, but I fear that
in the long term there will be lots of them. So it's a question: do we clutter
up the top level with a heap of <organisation> directories, or do we
have a heap of Systems/<organisation> directories. I'd prefer the latter.
I also feel that Year of Distribution probably
needs to be in the
name if possible (certainly in metadata or at least an explanatory
README). For things like the USENIX tapes that's easier - because they
were done by year.
My preference is to keep date details in metadata and not in directory names.
There will be some things which are hard to date or whose date is in dispute,
and there may be things which are aggregates of work done over several years.
But I'll admit that there is not enough metadata and little consistency in
the metadata (e.g. Readme files) that are currently in the Archive.
Cheers & thanks for the feedback, Warren