Re: [office-comment] Separating OpenFormula from (the rest of) ODF 1.2

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

The question is whether there is anything new in a part that interacts 
with anything new in another part.  OpenFormula is new.  But the only 
thing really new in the Packaging part is digital signatures.  Not much of 
an interaction there between these two.  So you can fairly review these 
two parts independently.  Of course, the main part with the schema 
interacts with everything. 

We'll see how it goes.  Remember any substantive change we make in 
response to a public review causes us to hold a follow-up 15-day review. 
Depending on the volume of review comments we receive (and address) we can 
iterate on this several times. 

Also, we're not limited to a 60-day initial review.  Th at is just the 
minimum required.  So you could see the Schema go out, followed by 
Packaging 30 days later, followed by Metadata, 2 weeks later, followed by 
OpenFormula 2 weeks after that.  The 2nd review of the Schema could be 
concurrent with the first review of OpenFormula.  All sorts of different 
possibilities here.

Again, this is not  "the plan" just some observations on possibilities, 
based on preliminary discussions.


-Rob


marbux <marbux@gmail.com> wrote on 05/11/2009 07:06:09 PM:

> 
> Re: [office-comment] Separating OpenFormula from (the rest of) ODF  1.2
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM,  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Jesper Lund Stocholm <4a4553504552@gmail.com> wrote on 05/11/2009 
03:40:38
> > PM:
> 
> > The idea is still to release ODF 1.2 as a single time, with all parts
> > together.  But we may decide to send the individual parts to public 
review
> > as soon as they are ready.  That would allow us to hold a 60-day 
public
> > review on one part while still editing another part.
> 
> I presume there would still be a 60-day comment period for the
> entirety of the specification at the end of the process? I ask because
> I doubt there is any portion of the specification that is not
> interdependent with the rest. Not having an opportunity to study and
> comment on the whole would be somewhat reminiscent of the parable of
> the group of wise blind men describing the elephant by each examining
> only one part. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant>.
> 
>  Best regards,
> 
> Paul E. Merrell, J.D. (Marbux)
> 
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