Re: Re: enclosure status?

Lucas Gonze <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:12:10 -1000 (HST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Vadim,

> While I would love to have my proposal accepted as "winner", I must
> admit that no consensus have been reached on that. I think it never
> will until we see actual implementations, and then market will decide.

Well, let's get there.  IMO the only blocking factor is battle fatigue.

Something that would be helpful in reaching a consensus is a comparison 
between your proposal and Suzan's, the terser and more neutral the better.

- Lucas


On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Vadim Zaliva wrote:

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> --- In [email protected], Lucas Gonze <lgonze@p...> wrote:
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> Lucas,
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> While I would love to have my proposal accepted as "winner", I must
> admit that no consensus have been reached on that. I think it never
> will until we see actual implementations, and then market will decide.
>
> I am using my proposal in some project on which I am working on right
> now, which I plan to announce to public this month. Then it would be
> up to RSS aggregators vendors to decide to support it or not.
>
> Also we are working on implementation of my proposal for Informa
> library which we will submit as patch to Informa maintainers. If
> accepted it would make it easy for people to implement our proposal.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vadim
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>>>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Lucas Gonze wrote:
>>>>> What's the status of enclosures in RSS 1.0?  Thanks.
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>>> --- In [email protected], Lucas Gonze <lgonze@p...> wrote:
>>>> Now that I look around a little more, I think that the issue is the
>>>> status
>>>> of support for any of the proposals for enclosures in 1.0. In
>>>> particular,
>>>> what syntax, if any, do feed readers support for enclosures in 1.0
>>>> feeds?
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>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Suzan Foster wrote:
>>> AFAIK none. Especially among the podcatcher community there seems to
>>> be no incentive to implement anything other than rss 2.0 applications.
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>> That rings true to me.  Ok, it's easy enough to fix if the issue is
> well
>> known.
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>> What practical steps would help?
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>> Podcatcher devs need to know that there is consensus on how to do this
>> among the RSS 1.0 contributors.  Am I right in thinking that the
> Krokodile
>> proposal is the winner, and that it has moderate consensus behind
> it?  Is
>> it possible that core RSS 1.0 contributors have reached consensus
> but not
>> publicized it?
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>> Whatever the consensus is, it needs documentation.  There should be a
>> tutorial, an XML.com article, and sample code.
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>> It also needs tools.  The universal feed parser should support it,
>> whatever's in CPAN for RSS 1.0 should support it, Magpie needs a
>> patch.
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>> It is also possible for RSS 1.0 contributors to modify the FOSS
>> podcatchers themselves.  iPodder is GPL.
>>
>> - Lucas
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