Minutes Feb 02, 2010 posted

["Jacques R. Durand" <JDurand@us.fujitsu.com>]

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-jacques

Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC meeting

Event Description:
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Tuesday 2pm (California time), 2 February 2010

Host confcall: Fujitsu
US Toll Free: 877-995-3314
US Toll/International: 210-339-1806
Passcode: 9589308

Agenda: 
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1. Administrative:
- approval min Jan 19

2. Final review of the three candidates CDs:
(see email 1/29 for pointers to these last versions)
- Model (main changes: remove "Report" element, update cardinalities in Target / Predicate / Prereq classes)
- Mark-up
- Guidelines (main change: extended "complex predicate" section)

3. Decision to submit for internal electronic ballot:
- last practical formatting/packaging details (RDDL...)
- (CDs + PR)
- any last minor updates we agree on that need be done before initating a ballot?



Participants:
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Stephen Green, (Document Engineering Services)

Jacques Durand, (Fujitsu)

Tim Boland (NIST)

Paul Rank (Sun/Oracle)

Patrick Curran (Sun/Oracle)

Kevin Looney  (Sun/Oracle)

Dennis Hamilton (individual)



Action Items:
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AI1-Dec08: [Dennis] check availability of JIRA (official OASIS debug tracking).

AI2-Dec08: [jacques] check with Sun if Dimitri still available for helping 
on tech writing/review.

AI1-Feb02: [jacques] check with Mary if RDDL needed.


Minutes: 
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'''1. Administrative '''

- approval min Jan 19: approved.

'''2. Final review of the three candidates CDs:'''

(see email 1/29 for pointers to these last versions)
- Model (main changes: remove "Report" element, update cardinalities in 
Target / Predicate / Prereq classes)
- Mark-up
- Guidelines (main change: extended "complex predicate" section)

- Affiliations need be changed for Sun to Oracle.
DH: wait for final changes in OASIS roster.
JD: check with Mary if RDDL needed for the entire PR package.
JD: do we need to identify clearly the conformance targets (TAs and TA sets). To be improved.
- Should we add the recent W3C ref about their recent Test Methodology doc? (they refer to TAG too)
DH: no need to for now. Cross references would look strange.
JD: Guidelines: do we need to mention "non-normative" refs as there is none normative?

'''3. Decision to submit for internal electronic ballot:'''
- last practical formatting/packaging details (RDDL...)
- (CDs + PR)
- any last minor updates we agree on that need be done before initating a ballot?

- COnsensus is to open a ballot for CD + PR of the package of 3 docs (2 specs + guidelines)
- JD: will open a ballot this Friday for this, accepting only purely formatting and presentation
changes from editor afterward.
- ballot wording:
"Approval of TA Model + TA markup + Guidelines"
Do you approve the following documents as new Committee Drafts as well as suitable 
for Public Review, with the understanding that ultimate purely editorial modifications
 may be done after per request of OASIS to comply with formatting and referential rules:
- Test Assertions Guidelines1-0-9-8 (candidate CD #4)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36213
- Test Assertion Markup Language 1-0-8-2 (candidate CD #1)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36262
- test assertions Model 1-0-8 (candidate CD #1)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=36207