Re: Tinylog todo list - brain dump

Author:       -fab- 
License:      CC BY-SA 4.0
Published on: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:10:20 +0200
Last updated: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:10:20 +0200

I just enjoyed bacardi55's' "Tinylog todo list - brain dump". And I have to say that it's good to have him back into Gemini space. I really missed him and his innovations for the Gemini protocol. This is a reply to his post:

Comments on the gemini-tinylog-rfc

The date format

Concerning the date format in tinylogs, I do agree with Sandra from idiomdrottning.org that there should really be a standard date format like Sandra proposed:

## YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm TZ

where TZ can be either something like "CEST" or "UTC", or an offset like "+0200", but I'm not sure what Sandra thinks about the offset format. But I think this way it's the easiest and it's international, as Sandra said in a tinylog entry.

Optional Information

The now optional information like "# <Title>", "<description>" and the metadata fields "author:", "avatar:", "license:" should remain optional, because some people (like Sandra) are to stubborn to put them into their tinylogs for several reasons and I give up to bring people to put them into their tinylogs. Also if that means, that I've to put some names into my tinylogs subsbscriptions list, but then the users have to either live with that name or set an "author:" line.

But the "author:" and "avatar:" lines on the tinylog page should always take precedence.

The response line

The response line is nearly good as it is right now I think. One *should* use a link back to the original tinylog, but it should remain optional. And there shouldn't be a need for a "@" before the name of the author. There may be one, but should be optional like "fab", "@fab" or "@fab@redterminal.org". Whatever the user wants in his "author:" tag, or if no "author:" tag is given, what's set in the subscription list (including names beginning with a tilde like "~coolmoed").

So the line should be something like this:

[=> linkToOriginalTinylog ]RE:  

The "RE:" should be case insensitive.

Up to discussion

These are just my proposals and up for discussion. But I think there has not to be done much on the RFC except the date should be in an international format *only*.

Have fun!

-fab-

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