Key links:
OASIS Technical
Committee Process: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
TC
Administration Requests: http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCAdminRequests.html
Here is a summary
of how the new OASIS processes will affect our feature articles
·
Our
feature articles will need to follow the guidelines outlined in “Section
2.1.8 Work Product Quality”: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#specQuality
. This means, among other items, that we need to provide editable source, XHTML
(or HTML), and PDF.
·
Our
feature articles (now called committee notes) must follow the processes
outlined in “Section 3 Approval Process.”
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standApprovProcess
Here is my understanding of how the new process will affect our work:
o
We
register the work product: http://marypmcrae.com/wptemplate-request
o
We
approve the work product as a “Committee note draft.” This requires
a full majority vote of the TC.
o
We
decide to submit a committee note draft for public review; this also requires a
full majority vote of the TC. If approved by the TC, this draft becomes a
“Committee Note Public Review Draft”; it must be accompanied by a
“recommendation from the TC of external stakeholders who should be
notified of the review.”
o
We
request a 30-day public review from Mary McRae: http://marypmcrae.com/30-day-cndpr-request
. This request form requires the following information, among others:
§ URI for the committee note draft at http://docs.oasis-open.org/
§ Link to the minutes for the Adoption
TC meeting at which the TC approved the committee note draft and voted to
request a review
o
Mary
McRae announces the public review to the OASIS membership list and
“optionally on other public mail lists.”
o
Non-TC
Members post comments to the TC's public-comment list. [Do we have such as
list?] We must acknowledge the receipt of each comment and track the comments
received; at the end of the review period, we need to post a list of how each
comment has been handled to our e-mail list.
o
If
we make ANY changes to the committee note draft as a result of the public
review, we need to start the whole process over. The review period this time is
only 15 days.
o After a public review that does not generates
any comments that result in the changes to the committee note draft, we can
approve the work product as a committee note. This requires a special majority
vote of the TC. If the 15-day review generated any comments, this vote cannot
be held before seven days have passed since the close of the public review. To
conduct the special majority vote, we need to notify Mary McRae that the TC is
ready to vote and provide her with the location of the editable versions of the
files. She sets up and conducts the ballot.
It’s not clear to me whether we’ll
need to request that OASIS create and upload the committee note draft for us;
there is a form for this at http://marypmcrae.com/cnd-creation-request
.
Best regards,
Kris
Kristen
James Eberlein l DITA
Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL
Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1
(919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com
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