Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:39:24 -0700
On 9/2/21 2:09 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, David Keaton via Liaison wrote:
>
>> This would be appropriate material for a TR. However, an International
>> Standard is another valid choice because that would allow us to request that
>> it be made available for free. It would basically be a catalog of standards,
>> which is one of the few categories they actually approve for free
>> availability.
>
> I'm thinking of something much more lightweight - e.g. a GitHub repository
> and associated website, nothing more. I don't see ISO processes, or any
> frozen release versions of such a collection of links, as being of use to
> this sort of thing - but it would be important for it to be easy and quick
> for someone to make a one-off contribution (e.g. someone writing a psABI
> for one architecture could make one pull request to add links to it, and
> would probably never contribute to the list again).
That makes sense to me.
David
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, David Keaton via Liaison wrote:
>
>> This would be appropriate material for a TR. However, an International
>> Standard is another valid choice because that would allow us to request that
>> it be made available for free. It would basically be a catalog of standards,
>> which is one of the few categories they actually approve for free
>> availability.
>
> I'm thinking of something much more lightweight - e.g. a GitHub repository
> and associated website, nothing more. I don't see ISO processes, or any
> frozen release versions of such a collection of links, as being of use to
> this sort of thing - but it would be important for it to be easy and quick
> for someone to make a one-off contribution (e.g. someone writing a psABI
> for one architecture could make one pull request to add links to it, and
> would probably never contribute to the list again).
That makes sense to me.
David
Received on 2021-09-02 16:39:34