Carlo Traverso wrote:
The problem is how to have beta-testing AND respect PG tradition of posting only definitive stuff.
I believe the PG policy is (or at least, has been at some point) to encourage the posting of preliminary material. From the PG header: Please note: neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month. A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, comment and editing by those who wish to do so. To be sure you have an up to date first edition [xxxxx10x.xxx] please check file sizes in the first week of the next month. That is exactly what we want to do: post a preliminary version for suggestion, comment and editing. I don't understand why this is not possible for a TEI file.
I might offer web space, computing and bandwidth to post XML, convert it to txt and html and what else, and submit the result to whitewashing.
Thank you. As for the server I can also offer one located in Germany, so the same limitations apply. But this is sooo tedious! We have to replicate the exact setup of gutenberg.org *and* pglaf.org to get reliable results from the beta-test. Example: my servers are all debian and have perl 5.8 whereas ibiblio is redhat enterprise with perl 5.6. This has often before given me headache because programs that ran at home, misteriously failed at ibiblio. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org