Re: [office-collab] Merge-enabled Change Tracking (MCT) evaluation

[Robin LaFontaine <robin.lafontaine@deltaxml.com>]

This is by way of an update on where we are at the moment, see notes below.

The TC is setting up a Select Committee to recommend the way ahead, so there seems no point doing further work at the moment in the SC. Of course if there are further questions about MCT then these can be discussed, and I am sure the Select Committee will have questions to ask.

On 14/02/2012 17:04, Robin LaFontaine wrote:

Following presentation by Svante today, participants in the call suggested the following activities:

1. Svante will update the presentation document because there appeared to be a number of errors in the examples and these need to be correct in order to be used as examples of how MCT works.

Completed. It is important to note that collaboration operations are from old version of a document to new and change tracking instructions are the other way round, because the final document is the one that is represented.

2. Svante will write up details of the path notation being used. This is not XPath/XPointer but is based on components in the ODF.

Not done but we have Svante's solution for several of the use cases, this has been uploaded to the documents repository.

3. Patrick, Tristan and Thorsten will work on some examples, using the six Use Cases that were selected for detailed examination of ECT and GCT. Svante will provide some further documentation giving details of the operations to be used for these, then Patrick, Tristan and Thorsten will encode the tracked changes in MCT. Svante will also produce a 'correct' example for each.

This has not been done and I have not been pressing for this because we have Svante's solutions. However this means no-one else has tried to get an MCT solution so there has been very little peer review of MCT. Patrick and Thorsten will look at it more closely as members of the Select Committee.

4. We will have a further call to discuss in 2-3 weeks time. Meanwhile the TC is looking at requirements so our work is in parallel.

Not done because TC has now agreed to set up a small group, the Select Committee, to look at the best way forward for ODF change tracking.

5. The objective is to have sufficient understanding so that we can review Svante's changes to the consensus report and update this as necessary with the findings of the SC.

See 4 above - we are not working on updating the report.

6. Any other technical questions to the mailing list over the next few weeks.

Very few questions. The one from Svante on formula example was more to do with the ODF format and what changes need to be recorded rather than how MCT does it (a very valid question of course, but not clarifying MCT). As we do not have a document describing the path notation it is probably difficult to ask more questions.

Robin
 

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