Re: [wsrf] WS-RF ballot to publish working drafts closes 11AM Eastern onFriday 18 - please vote if you have not already done so.

[Ian Robinson <ian_robinson@uk.ibm.com>]

Pete, 
The documents are labelled to follow the best practises described in "http://www.oasis-open.org/spectools/docs/wd-spectools-instructions-02.pdf". These documents are working drafts of the TC and the purpose of the ballot was to get TC approval to publish them at the URLs described in each document as stable, consistent drafts available to early adopters (such as WS-N, WS-DM). We discussed on the June 7 telecon that, while there was no requirement to have a ballot for the TC approve this, the WS-N TC had decided to ballot their members on a similar course of action and we would be consistent with their approach.

I'll respond to Martin's suggestion in the same note.
We could certainly consider whether, going forward, we want to use an additional editorial status of "editorial draft" on drafts that we don't want to increment the "working draft" version number on. I can also create a separate "editors drafts" document folder for such drafts to help organize the TC's documents. Does this sound useful?

Regards,
Ian Robinson
STSM, WebSphere Transactions Architect
IBM Hursley Lab, UK
ian_robinson@uk.ibm.com

Pete Wenzel <pete@seebeyond.com> 17/06/2004 19:09

To:        Martin Chapman <martin.chapman@oracle.com>         cc:        Ian Robinson/UK/IBM@IBMGB, wsrf@lists.oasis-open.org         Subject:        Re: [wsrf] WS-RF ballot to publish working drafts closes 11AM Eastern on Friday 18 - please vote if you have not already done so.

Those are good suggestions, Martin.  In addition, I recorded the
following comment along with my vote:

  It is not necessary to approve publication of working drafts, unless
  they are to be considered Committee Drafts.  The OASIS TC Process
  requires that all work be done in the open and made available to the
  public at all times, either via the TC mailing list or document
  repository.  If the purpose of this ballot is to approve changes
  made by the editors that have not yet been explicitly approved by
  the TC, then the motion should be worded accordingly.

--Pete

Thus spoke Martin Chapman (martin.chapman@oracle.com) on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:43:10PM +0100:
> Just a suggestion going forward on labelling documents.
> 
> The convention used in many groups is to use the term editors draft for
> any version produced by the editors, 
> 
> and to use the term working draft for those versions that have been
> adopted by the group as the next baseline.
> 
> Also we really should set up an editors subgroup in which intermediate
> versions can be posted, and reserve the group wide doc repository just
> for working drafts.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Robinson [mailto:ian_robinson@uk.ibm.com] 
> Sent: 17 June 2004 15:35
> To: wsrf@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [wsrf] WS-RF ballot to publish working drafts closes 11AM
> Eastern on Friday 18 - please vote if you have not already done so.
> 
> The WS-RF ballot to publish working drafts closes 11AM Eastern on Friday
> 18 - please vote if you have not already done so. 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrf/ballot.php?id=472 
> 
> 
> Thanks to those that have already voted. 
> Ian 

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Pete Wenzel <pete@seebeyond.com>
Senior Architect, SeeBeyond
Standards & Product Strategy
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