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DJ Chase u9000 at posteo.mx
Tue Oct 26 01:19:11 BST 2021
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On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 01:12 +0200, almaember wrote:
I hoped to not have to say it like this, I wanted to hide behind
formal
language and politeness, but I don't care about his opinion at all. He
owns a website and a capsule, that's all. He didn't write the
implementations and the capsules.
almeamber, I understand your reaction to freezing the spec, but pleaseat least take the time to check your facts before trashing someone.Solderpunk has written at least AV-98 (client) and molly-brown (server).He's not just some guy with a site and capsule; he's the person whocreated the spec and who still has ultimate control over it. Thecanonical Gemini specification is at<gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi>, and Solderpunk is theonly one with write-access to<gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi>.
He can do whatever he wants with his
website, but for the rest, let the community decide. And the community
has pretty much settled on the original spec, so...
The community has pretty much settled on the original spec because theoriginal spec has pretty much settled (due to Solderpunk's absence).Neither are fully settled, and the community can resettle upon a mostly-same, updated spec.
The difference to other standards is that we have no versions. When
the
C standards committee (which, by the way, has representatives of the
major implementations), they release a new revision, but don't
retroactively change anything. That's not possible with Gemini.
The difference with other standards is that they are standards.Currently, Gemini has only been specified - it has not be standardized.Right now, Gemini is non-standard. We don't have to worry aboutretroactively changing things because nothing is formalized; thespecification is not yet set in stone. We need to finish the spec beforewe can worry about changing things.
-- DJ ChaseThey, Them, Theirs