[Foundation] Jep structure

[Rahul Dave]

Yep I've stolen hook, line and sinker from em. Just changed the approval
process
:-)

I got this from you:
> 
> Just ignore me, maybe I need to finished reading Rahul's stuff first....
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
> > Well I emailed webmaster at python.org and I heard back from Guido himself! 
> > Python doesn't do things in XML, but their PEP format is described here:
> > 
> > http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0001.html
> > 
> > I'm in favor of shameless stealing where appropriate, and I'm reading 
> > over the PEP process with an eye to that right now. :)
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > 
> >> Sounds like a fine idea, once we figure out what goes into a JEEP. :) 
> >> (And no, I don't accept that whole JEP thing, I think JEEP is much 
> >> more catchy :P) If you look at the Python PEPs (now there's a good 
> >> acronym), they are often quite simple, more like a short proposal or 
> >> many of our draft protocol docs, not nearly as big as an RFC. For all 
> >> I know the Python dudes are already using a DTD, it might be cool to 
> >> check (I'll contact them about it). We could probably even use a 
> >> subset of the DocBook DTD for this (author, abstract, etc.).
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> eliot landrum wrote:
> >>
> >>> Would there be any interest in creating a simple XML DTD for JEP 
> >>> documents? Jer and I found an excellent one for RFCs when we were 
> >>> putting together the IETF draft. Trust me, it saved us a lot of 
> >>> headache. For submission we just ran a script to convert the XML to a 
> >>> text file or HTML. The text file follows the RFC standards and looks 
> >>> great without us bothering with all the little formatting nuances. It 
> >>> even handles footnotes and such for us. Perhaps we (or I) could put 
> >>> together a simple one for JEP authors to use? A script could then 
> >>> output it to the format you've described.
> >>>
> >>> Rahul Dave wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Following the Consensus along Peter's document for Jep's and Jig's, 
> >>>> and the
> >>>> jeep-jep name change, here's the latest:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://nareau.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jep/
> >>>>
> >>>> Could we add this to the agenda for Wed meeting?
> >>>>
> >>>> See jep-0001.txt especially ..it reflects the new voting structure, 
> >>>> slightly
> >>>> expanded from Peters version to allow for acceptance of both the JEP 
> >>>> itself
> >>>> as well as the ref implementation by the council.
> >>>> See jep-0003.txt. Its Jeremie's Proxy accept socket service written 
> >>>> as a JEP
> >>>> to illustrate what a JEP looks like.
> >>>>
> >>>> Rahul(tig)
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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