Re: [office-formula] Portability notes

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Eike,

The short answer is "no," I intended no change to the way the SC or TC 
works.

I was over reading your response as indicating a fixed choice to include 
the portability notes as opposed to resolving them on a case by case basis.

Time is short and I was reading more into your note that was merited.

My apologies.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

PS: I still think the portability notes represent the largest "hill" we 
have to climb before a final version. ;-) I will see what I can do on 
those between later today when you upload your version and next Tuesday.

Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Tuesday, 2010-02-02 09:32:09 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>
>   
>>> Earlier we agreed to convert portable documents language to portability
>>> notes, and in a second step turn parts of those notes to normative text
>>> where necessary.
>>>   
>>>       
>> No, we agreed that I would examine the text and mark all the portability  
>> material, of which there is a considerable amount.
>>
>> Some of the options for disposition of that material included  
>> portability notes and/or normative text.
>>     
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-formula/200912/msg00092.html
> AFAIK no one objected to Michael's proposal, we only had some discussion
> about details. Robert and me basically supported the proposal.
>
>   
>> There was no agreement that *all* of the various portability material  
>> would either become a portability note or would become normative text.
>>     
>
> No formal agreement, call it tacit agreement, tacit approval, ... (had
> to look those up).
>
> In
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-formula/200912/msg00100.html
> you said
> | I am creating a "PortabilityNote" style for all the portability notes 
> | which will enable us to search for them by style. As we resolve them, 
> | they will become subject to other styles, true notes, normative text, 
> | etc.
>
> To me that sounds like you agreed as well.
>
>   
>> Which would result in all of the current portability material remaining  
>> in the text under one guise or another.
>>     
>
> We may drop things on a case by case basis, but the default should be to
> turn the portability material to either note (probably appropriate in
> most cases) or normative text.
>
>   
>> That has never been asked nor answered in any decision taken by the TC  
>> or the formula SC.
>>     
>
> The formula SC's working style usually does not need formal decisions.
> Common sense, consensus and absence of objection so far were sufficient.
> Do we suddenly need to change that?
>
>   Eike
>
>   

-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)