SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (08 Nov 2020 21:50 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Vladimir Nikishkin (09 Nov 2020 02:12 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 09:41 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2020 16:15 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 16:36 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lulu (09 Nov 2020 19:42 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2020 20:35 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 20:57 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2020 23:41 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (10 Nov 2020 07:53 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2020 23:45 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2020 20:50 UTC)
Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 21:12 UTC)
The funnel pattern Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2020 21:30 UTC)

Re: SRFI-metadata-syncing SRFI? noosphere@xxxxxx 09 Nov 2020 23:41 UTC

On Mon 09 Nov 2020 11:05:21 PM +02, Lassi Kortela wrote:

> Of course the aggregator could read all of those sources and merge them
> all into one big file. This would mean that in practice, most people
> would just read the results of the aggregator instead of scavenging from
> individual implementations' git repos and tar files, trusting that the
> aggregator to do the latter job for all. Is this reasonable?

I have no problem with that, but I expect various people to just want
to do their own thing.  Some will want to get the data from the
aggregator, others will also prefer to go to the source.

The best an aggregator can do is publish their own aggregated results in
a well-defined format and publicize them.

  --Sergey