On 02/06/2012 06:36 AM, Greg Newby wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:27:30PM -0800, Jim Adcock wrote:
Greg>We've only been discussing this for a week or two. I encourage anyone wanting to do their own experiments to go ahead. Nothing that Marcello or anyone else did is deployed to www.gutenberg.org yet.
Sorry, I think some of us must be confused by Marcello deploying "his" version of the files at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
for example, which is a privilege he has given himself that none of the rest have. What I think we had imaging was the Marcello was going to come up with was a way for *any* of us to post our examples say to the "More Files" category at that location, rather than Marcello giving himself "special privileges" to post his stuff directly into the main directory, while keeping the rest of us out.
I agree this seems like cheating.
Since when is being the first person to get his ass in gear cheating? I always said I wanted to implement a master format. I never said I was going to implement vanity editions. In fact I don't believe PG has the resources to handle them. If other people want to have vanity editions then *they* should come up with ways to implement them, eg.: - devise a new filesystem layout that accomodates vanity editions, - talk the WWers into adopting it, - fix the WWers tools to work with it, - create a workforce to check and catalog all vanity submissions, - start posting books, - explain to me how the database should pick up those files / metadata. I'm not wasting my time crying and complaining and trying to stop other people from moving. In fact I've already implemented all database functions for the posting of vanity epubs since DP expressed the wish to do so. If they didn't start posting yet, its because they couldn't convince the WWers. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org