Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Charter and Deliverables: the "State of Interoperability" assessment activity

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

2008/8/10 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>:
> SUGGESTION:
>
> Add to 1c. Scope of Work
>
> "0.     Development and progressive improvement of a methodology for
> carrying out impartial surveys of the current state of conformance and
> interoperability among ODF implementations and for reporting the results of
> such surveys."
>
> (Adjust item 1 accordingly, if needed.  I considered merging this into item
> 1 but decided it made things too unwieldy.)


-1 as stands.  Too subjective.

28 people respond with individual views on whether X is
conformant/interoperable.

How to draw objective conclusions from that.

Other concern is the expertise/effort needed to design+carry out such a survey
(or however else you gather the information).


Noted that "0.     Initial procedure and methodology for the first survey of the
current state of conformance and interoperability among ODF
implementations."  is similarly a bit fluffy Dennis.

What exactly do you want in your hand at the end of this work, and how
many person days do you forsee this taking?



regards

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