Re: [office] OpenDocument TC Coordination Call Agenda March 31, 2008

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Rob,

Thanks!

A couple of extra points that we have not previously discussed:

I will be meeting with SC 34 (and Murata-san) later this week/early next 
in Oslo, Norway and one of the informal items on the agenda is the ODF 
defect reports. They too are interested in quicker processing of errata 
but we have to be mindful of my next point.

The sticking point, at least in my view, is that OASIS limits a TC to 
two errata documents per year, which either means one waits to gather up 
errata (creating the delay that you mention), or there are only two 
errata documents per year and whether your particular errata makes it 
into one of those two depends on your timing.

Neither of those seems optimal to me but it is an improvement over the 
prior process, which was to issue a new version of the standard.

Personally I think members of OASIS, outside of the ODF TC since this 
would be out of scope for the TC, should study the ISO defect procedure 
and propose a mechanism in OASIS that corresponds to that process, 
particularly for standards that have been submitted to ISO. That would 
keep TCs, such as ours, from having to try to coordinate between two 
different errata processes. I suspect there is that sort of coordination 
of process between ISO and the Unicode Consortium so it isn't unknown 
for that to happen.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> We have not yet voted on the errata.  Patrick was going to revise his 
> document to make it more minimalist, just giving the text changes, 
> without extraneous explanations.  This appears to be the ISO practice 
> and preference.
>
> The plan is to submit this response to the JISC defect report on its 
> own.  This will not prevent us from producing other errata documents. 
>  We can review today if this is unclear.
>
> -Rob
>
> "Florian Reuter" <freuter@novell.com> wrote on 03/31/2008 07:33:35 AM:
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > can you point me to the errata plan we dicscussed in on of the last
> > meetings. Can't find the final outcome of that
> > decision. Was there an action item?
> >
> > So --- has the TC already voted on when to submit erratas to ISO?
> > More precise: Will [4] be scheduled to submit to ISO along with
> > other eratas or will it be send to ISO directly blocking us to write
> > and erata for all the other issues?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~Florian
> >
> > >>> <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> 03/31/08 12:51 AM >>>
> > OpenDocument TC
> >
> > Agenda Phone Conference March 31, 2008
> > ======================================
> >
> > The OpenDocument Technical Committee will have its next
> > TC Coordination Call on Monday, March the 31th, at 7:00am PDT
> > (2:00pm GMT, 3pm CET).
> >
> > The call counts towards voter eligibility.
> >
> > The teleconference phone number can be found at the TC's web page at
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/event.php?event_id=17805
> >
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> >
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> > Chat room for meeting is at:  http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/odf
> >
> > Agenda
> > ------
> > 1. Dial-In, Roll Call, Review of Voting Membership
> > 2. Approval of Minutes
> > 3. Action Item Review, as included in [1]
> > 4. ODF 1.0 Draft Response ISO N0942[4]
> > 5. Approval of Proposals that are ready for approval [2]
> > 6. Discussion of further proposals [3]
> > 7. Adjournment
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1]
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200803/msg00008.html
> > [2]
> > http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument_v1%
> > 2e2_Action_Items#head-d1e14ae87fe7f9676dd8da28d42479d81367316e
> >
> > [3]
> > http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument_v1%
> > 2e2_Action_Items#head-d117ebdb1531adf3aa1dbb5fb619a2298f88ac0e
> >
> > [4]
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200802/msg00038.html
> >
> >
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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)