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A standard to easily communicate to humans and machines the development/support and usability status of software repositories/projects.
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Change "Concept" #22

Closed HoverBaum closed 7 years ago

HoverBaum commented 7 years ago

I would propose to change the description of the status "Concept" to include ideas that are just being tried out.

"Concept" in my mind serves as two kind of things:

  1. The status in which all repos start. Just being a concept, some rough ideas are drawn out. No real work towards a stable version is put into it.
  2. The repo simply illustrates something and is never intended to move towards a stable version or product. This may also include that during development the team noticed that there is a better way but this code still serves as a base for that approach.

My personal examples are exercises I did to understand "One Page Frameworks" in JavaScript. I build at least the scaffold for multiple such frameworks to understand underlying problems and approaches but really they are just "Concepts" and never meant for production.

Minimal or no implementation has been done yet or an idea is just being tried.

Would be my suggestion as a base to work from. You may find more detailes on my thought process and a bigger picture of how statuses could relate in https://github.com/jantman/repostatus.org/issues/19#issuecomment-290917577

jantman commented 7 years ago

I like this. At the moment I'm leaning towards changing Concept from:

Minimal or no implementation has been done yet.

to:

Minimal or no implementation has been done yet, or the repository is only intended to be a limited example, demo, or proof-of-concept.

But I'm certainly open to suggestions on that.

Since it's the weekend I'm going to let this sit for another day or two in case anyone else wants to offer input, but I'll come back to it this coming week.

HoverBaum commented 7 years ago

@jantman That seem an elegant description. But yeah give it some time.