CEP: 2
Title: Sample Plaintext CEP Template
Version: $Revision: 65634 $
Last-Modified: $Date: 2008-08-10 11:25:11 -0600 (Sun, 10 Aug 2008) $
Author: William Hart
Status: Draft
Type: Process
Content-Type: text/plain
Created: 09-Apr-2010
Post-History: 

Abstract

    This CEP provides a boilerplate or sample template for creating
    your own plaintext CEPs.  In conjunction with the content
    guidelines in CEP 1 [1], this should make it easy for you to
    conform your own CEPs to the format outlined below.

    Note: if you are reading this CEP via the web, you should first
    grab the plaintext source of this CEP in order to complete the
    steps below.  DO NOT USE THE HTML FILE AS YOUR TEMPLATE!

    To get the source this (or any) CEP, look at the top of the HTML
    page and click on the date & time on the "Last-Modified" line.  It
    is a link to the source text in the Coopr repository.

    If you would prefer to use lightweight markup in your CEP, please
    see CEP 3, "Sample reStructuredText CEP Template" [2].


Rationale

    CEP submissions come in a wide variety of forms, not all adhering
    to the format guidelines set forth below.  Use this template, in
    conjunction with the content guidelines in CEP 1, to ensure that
    your CEP submission won't get automatically rejected because of
    form.


How to Use This Template

    To use this template you must first decide whether your CEP is
    going to be an Informational or Standards Track CEP.  Most CEPs
    are Standards Track because they propose a new feature for Coopr.
    When in doubt, read CEP 1 for details or contact the CEP editors
    <coopr-admin@googlecodes.com>.

    Once you've decided which type of CEP yours is going to be, follow
    the directions below.

    - Make a copy of this file (.txt file, not HTML!) and perform the
      following edits.

    - Replace the "CEP: 2" header with "CEP: XXX" since you don't yet
      have a CEP number assignment.

    - Change the Title header to the title of your CEP.

    - Leave the Version and Last-Modified headers alone; we'll take
      care of those when we check your CEP into Coopr's Subversion
      repository.  These headers consist of keywords ("Revision" and
      "Date" enclosed in "$"-signs) which are automatically expanded
      by the repository.  Please do not edit the expanded date or
      revision text.

    - Change the Author header to include your name, and optionally
      your email address.  Be sure to follow the format carefully:
      your name must appear first, and it must not be contained in
      parentheses.  Your email address may appear second (or it can be
      omitted) and if it appears, it must appear in angle brackets.
      It is okay to obfuscate your email address.

    - If there is a mailing list for discussion of your new feature,
      add a Discussions-To header right after the Author header.
      You should not add a Discussions-To header if the mailing
      list to be used is either coopr-forum@googlecodes.com or
      coopr-developers@googlecodes.com, or if discussions should be
      sent to you directly.  Most Informational CEPs don't have a
      Discussions-To header.

    - Change the Status header to "Draft".

    - For Standards Track CEPs, change the Type header to "Standards
      Track".

    - For Informational CEPs, change the Type header to
      "Informational".

    - For Standards Track CEPs, if your feature depends on the
      acceptance of some other currently in-development CEP, add a
      Requires header right after the Type header.  The value should
      be the CEP number of the CEP yours depends on.  Don't add this
      header if your dependent feature is described in a Final CEP.

    - Change the Created header to today's date.  Be sure to follow
      the format carefully: it must be in dd-mmm-yyyy format, where
      the mmm is the 3 English letter month abbreviation, e.g. one of
      Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

    - For Standards Track CEPs, after the Created header, add a
      Coopr-Version header and set the value to the next planned
      version of Coopr, i.e. the one your new feature will hopefully
      make its first appearance in.  Do not use an alpha or beta
      release designation here.  Thus, if the last version of Coopr
      was 2.2 alpha 1 and you're hoping to get your new feature into
      Coopr 2.2, set the header to:

      Coopr-Version: 2.2

    - Leave Post-History alone for now; you'll add dates to this
      header each time you post your CEP to coopr-forum@googlecodes.com or
      coopr-developers@googlecodes.com.  E.g. if you posted your CEP to the lists
      on August 14, 2001 and September 3, 2001, the Post-History
      header would look like:

      Post-History: 14-Aug-2001, 03-Sept-2001

      You must manually add new dates and check them in.  If you don't
      have check-in privileges, send your changes to the CEP editor.

    - Add a Replaces header if your CEP obsoletes an earlier CEP.  The
      value of this header is the number of the CEP that your new CEP
      is replacing.  Only add this header if the older CEP is in
      "final" form, i.e. is either Accepted, Final, or Rejected.  You
      aren't replacing an older open PEP if you're submitting a
      competing idea.

    - Now write your Abstract, Rationale, and other content for your
      PEP, replacing all this gobbledygook with your own text. Be sure
      to adhere to the format guidelines below, specifically on the
      prohibition of tab characters and the indentation requirements.

    - Update your References and Copyright section.  If possible,
      place your CEP in the public domain or use the Open Publication
      License [3].  Otherwise, include your copyright information.

    - Leave the little Emacs turd at the end of this file alone,
      including the formfeed character ("^L", or \f).

    - Send your CEP submission to the CEP editor
      (coopr-admin@googlecodes.com).


Plaintext CEP Formatting Requirements

    CEP headings must begin in column zero and the initial letter of each
    word must be capitalized as in book titles.  Acronyms should be in
    all capitals.  The body of each section must be indented 4 spaces.
    Code samples inside body sections should be indented a further 4
    spaces, and other indentation can be used as required to make the
    text readable.  You must use two blank lines between the last line
    of a section's body and the next section heading.

    You must adhere to the Emacs convention of adding two spaces at the
    end of every sentence.  You should fill your paragraphs to column 70,
    but under no circumstances should your lines extend past column 79.
    If your code samples spill over column 79, you should rewrite them.

    Tab characters must never appear in the document at all.  A CEP
    should include the standard Emacs stanza included by example at the
    bottom of this CEP.

    When referencing an external web page in the body of a CEP, you
    should include the title of the page in the text, with a
    footnote reference to the URL.  Do not include the URL in the body
    text of the CEP.  E.g.

        Refer to the Coopr web site [1] for more details.
        ...
        [1] https://software.sandia.gov/coopr

    When referring to another CEP, include the CEP number in the body
    text, such as "CEP 1".  The title may optionally appear.  Add a
    footnote reference, a number in square brackets.  The footnote
    body should include the CEP's title and author.  It may optionally
    include the explicit URL on a separate line, but only in the
    References section.  Note that the pep2html.py script will
    calculate URLs automatically.  For example:

            ...
            Refer to CEP 1 [7] for more information about CEP style
            ...

        References

            [7] CEP 1, CEP Purpose and Guidelines, Hart
                http://www.coin-or.org/Coopr/ceps/cep-0001.html

    If you decide to provide an explicit URL for a CEP, please use
    this as the URL template:

        http://www.coin-or.org/Coopr/ceps/cep-xxxx/

    CEP numbers in URLs must be padded with zeros from the left, so as
    to be exactly 4 characters wide, however CEP numbers in the text
    are never padded.


References

    [1] CEP 1, CEP Purpose and Guidelines, Hart
        http://www.coin-or.org/Coopr/ceps/cep-0001.html

    [2] CEP 3, Sample reStructuredText CEP Template, Hart
        http://www.coin-or.org/Coopr/ceps/cep-0003.html

    [3] http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/



Copyright

    Copyright 2010 by Sandia National Laboratories.  Sandia National
    Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia
    Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin company, for
    the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration
    under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.