[QSOS-general] ideas QSOS v2 format

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Hi folks,


Today we have (at last) two know issues with the current XML format of QSOS.
1) The scoring style: Today we use in general 0 for a missing feature 
and 2 for a well implemented feature. A lot of people thinks that ZERO 
means "bad" and "2" means "good".
2) The list: There is no easy way to store a list in a QSOS sheet.

My suggestions:
For the scoring issue:

Today an element is stored like this:
<element name="books" title="books">
  <desc0>No book about the software</desc0>
  <desc1>Less than 5 books about the software are available</desc1>
  <desc2>More than 5 books about software are available, in several 
languages</desc2>
  <score>0</score>
  <comment></comment>
</element>

I suggest this:
<element name="books" title="books">
  <desc score="a">No book about the software</desc>
  <desc score="b">Less than 5 books about the software are available</desc>
  <desc score="c">More than 5 books about software are available, in 
several languages</desc>
  <score>a</score>
  <comment></comment>
</element>
0, 1 and 2 scores are replaced by letters.

For the list:
Today a list is stored like this:


<element name="packaging" title="Packaging">
 <desc>Packaging for various operating systems</desc>
 <element name="packagingsource" title="Source">
   <desc0>Software can't be installed from source without lot of 
work</desc0>
   <desc1>Installation from source is limited and depends on very 
strict conditions (OS, arch, lib, ...)</desc1>
   <desc2>Installation from source is easy</desc2>
   <score></score>
   <comment></comment>
 </element>
 <element name="packagingdebian" title="Debian">
    <desc0>The software is not packaged for Debian</desc0>
    <desc1>A Debian package exists but it has important issues or it 
doesn't have official support</desc1>
    <desc2>The software is packaged in the distribution</desc2>
    <score></score>
    <comment></comment>
  </element>
(...)
</element>

I suggest this:

<element name="packaging" title="Packaging" type="list">
 <desc>Packaging for various operating systems</desc>
 <desc score="a">Not a working installation medium</desc>
 <desc score="b">Workins installation medium but strict dependency (OS, 
arch, lib, ...)</desc>
 <desc score="c">Maintained and supported by official of 3rd team</desc>
 <item name="packagingsource" title="from Source">
   <desc>Installation from source tarball</desc>
   <score>b</score>
   <comment>Installation from source is easy but only with GCC 
3.0</comment>
 </item>
 <item name="packagingsource" title="Debian package">
   <score>c</score>
   <comment>Debian provide an official package</comment>
 </item>
(...)
</element>

Comments are welcome :).

Regards,

                 Gonéri