RFC: Draft Javascript Guidelines

[Michael DeHaan]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm drafting some Javascript Guidelines and would like some input.  
> The current ideas are on the wiki here::
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Javascript
>
> If I don't get some feedback I'll be making some decisions based on 
> the information there in order to have something that's ready for a 
> vote in two weeks.
>
> My current thoughts on positions the draft will take are::
>
> Javascript libraries must be packaged separately from web 
> applications.  Web Applications are not allowed to include Javascript 
> Libraries (or plugins to those libraries which have a separate 
> upstream from the web app) but must use the system provided ones.
>
> Javascript libraries must provide an apache conf file that will serve 
> the library from the filesystem to clients from a specific URL.  
> config files for other web servers are optional.
>
> URLs for Javascript libraries should be rooted in /js/
>
> I'm not sure whether to advocate using JsMin or similar or not.
>
> If you don't like some of these ideas, please respond!  Nothing's set 
> in stone yet, but without your input, they will get turned into 
> Guidelines.
>
> -Toshio
>

Just checking -- seems like Apache is going to need to be tweaked to do 
that in the default conf, else some other RPM may end up owning 
/var/www/js and having to configure it).   Right?

--Michael