On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 04:15:38PM -0500, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
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this change proves that it is now marcello making p.g. policy.
Absolute rubbish. While I cannot take credit for the technical solution, nor for the hard work of the handful of people who have done the investigation into different approaches for by-hand and auto-generated ePubs and other output files, I do know all about how this initiative was started. It was started during the DP board telecon on November 13. Find the minutes here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44456 The policy of PG, such that it is, is a policy of "yes." See, for example, http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Administrivia_by_Michael_Hart But the DP board, and the WWers, recognized that there would need to be a focused effort to bring about changes in the DP->PG workflow for ePub. The initiative is, in a nutshell, to do the work needed to identify this new workflow. Then, the DP board and whitewashers and PPVers and other stakeholders will tune and adopt. This is the sort of top-down plus bottom-up approach that I like to see. Top-down, the DP board (of which I am a member) saw the need, and I was able to employ my dual role with the WWers to help encourage people to work on the initiative. Bottom up, we have lots of interest & input from people who produce eBooks, from those who manage the DP infrastructure, and others. In short, there is massive buy-in to this effort, and the discussion on gutvol-d and the DP forums leaves no doubt as to the community interest in the initiative. Whether there is buy-in to the solution remains to be seen, but so far it looks very good. -- Greg PS: I don't want to downplay Marcello's contribution to this. He's one of the handful mentioned above, and has done a lot of great work to move things forward. He's part of the team.