Re: [office] (OASIS Issue Tracker) Commented: (OFFICE-1700) EditorNote: Section 18.258 style:font-charset

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Dennis,

You know, I don't just make this stuff up to irritate you. ;-)

 From Micheal's post of 29 May 2009:

> My proposal how we proceed is:
>
> Whoever has time and and interest may comment on an item, and may
> provide a resolution. This resolution is recorded in the "proposal"
> field. If a proposal for a resolution does exist, the proposer of the
> resolution sets the status of the issue to "resolved".
>
> Patrick (or myself if an issue affects the schema) takes the issues
> whose status is "resolved" and applies the proposed resolution to the
> specification text. He then sets the status to "Applied".
>
> The changes to the specification still will be recorded. We continue to
> have a week for TC internal reviews of drafts before we vote on them in
> a TC meeting, or we conduct electronic ballots for committee drafts, 
> that run at least a week anyway, so that there is the same time 
> available for a review.
>
> TC members therefore have the choice to either watch the items in JIRA,
> or to just review the changes in the next draft. The approval of a
> resolution takes place with the approval of a committee draft. This
> means that nothing that we do in JIRA implies any kind of approval by
> the TC, and that it is not required to watch the changes in JIRA to
> figure out what changes are made in a draft.
>
> When a draft has been approved as committee draft, all issues applied to
> that draft are closed (unless someone has objected to a particular
> resolution).
See: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/email/archives/200905/msg00451.html

Closing down for the day. Have to go let my chickens out in the yard for 
a bit. ;-)

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Patrick, my understanding of "resolved" in JIRA is that it means resolution has been *agreed*, "applied" in JIRA means, in my understanding, that the resolution has been implemented.
>
> A brand new JIRA issue could contain a proposed resolution.  
>
> I think we need to reaffirm exactly at what point something becomes resolved.
>
> (There may be a special case around editorial matters where you get to declare something resolved.  In that case, I suppose, someone would need to open a new issue in order to object to your determination.)
>
>  - Dennis 
>
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> Patrick Durusau commented on OFFICE-1700:
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>
> Sigh, all "resolution" means as used here is that a proposal has been made. Even if I "apply" the proposal, the issue has not yet be "closed." 
>
> We have to somehow move the issues through JIRA. I look for "resolved" issue to consider the proposals and make further comments if it seems unclear to me or to need further discussion. 
>
> Granted the process semantics aren't what I would choose starting from a blank slate, but that wasn't an option. 
>
> [ ... ]
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>
>   

-- 
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)