RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Suggestion for DITA sample files repository

[Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>]

I can think of two good ways to offer examples: to create a form for 
submitting examples, or to edit a page by hand. In either case, the 
submitted files would go into a web-visible file structure, and the 
explanation would point to it.

If files are posted on pages in the default way, users don't find out 
whether there's a file at the bottom unless they scroll down far enough. 
And in a Windows Explorer-style interface, you don't get information about 
what the files are.

We have a security issue here also, since posting files is subject to 
abuse. If we set up a method that requires the same permissions as posting 
to a blog, we'd probably be safe. Those permissions aren't granted by 
default to anyone who registers.

Best wishes,

Bruce

At 09:18 AM 6/12/2007, Carol Geyer wrote:
>I agree, this would be great to do on dita.xml.org. I have a meeting with our
>IT guys this afternoon to talk about the logistics.
>
> >From our standpoint, there wouldn't be total file space limitations, but 
> we do
>have a set upload size  limits of 32MB. Would that be sufficient?
>
>What kind of interface would we need? Right now, users can attach files to
>pages. Would that work or should we investigate using a special Drupal module
>to provide a more familiar file management interface?
>
>Carol
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Esrig [mailto:esrig-ia@esrig.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:19 PM
>To: Su-Laine Yeo; dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
>Cc: Jerry Silver
>Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Suggestion for DITA sample files repository
>
>I have recently received this request also, from someone I was explaining
>DITA to.
>
>It would be great if we had downloadable sets, each containing both source
>and output files.
>
>http://dita.xml.org seems like a good place to host them.
>
>Bruce
>
>At 05:05 PM 6/11/2007, Su-Laine Yeo wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >An idea has come up for the community to create a shared pool of DITA
> >sample files. These would be useful for testing the Open Toolkit and/or
> >could be good (not necessarily perfect) illustrations of how to use
> >DITA.
> >
> >I don't want to use Sourceforge as the repository, as I would like to
> >encourage companies to submit "real" content which is likely to be
> >copyrighted. So we need a place where companies can retain copyright
> >over the files they contribute. As a temporary location, this one:
> >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/files/ has
> >contributor-friendly terms of service and could work, but the 100 MB
> >capacity is pretty small. A new area in dita.xml.org would be ideal.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Su-Laine
> >
> >Su-Laine Yeo
> >Interaction Design Specialist, XMetaL
> >
> >JustSystems, Inc.
> >Office: 778-327-6356
> >syeo@xmetal.com
> >http://na.justsystems.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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