RE: [office] Preferred View Mode Approval - Recommendation

[Ming Fei Jia <jiamingf@cn.ibm.com>]

Dennis,

understand.

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote on 11/04/2008 12:30:55 AM:

> Subject:
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> RE: [office] Preferred View Mode Approval - Recommendation
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> RECOMMENDATION
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> The document-repository ODF version is very different in form (as a markup
> of the relevant sections of the ODF spec) than the wiki version which simply
> proposes the addition and its text.  
>
> I have confirmed that the proposed wordings for the Preferred View Mode
> attribute are identical.
>
> I recommend that text about anything but the Preferred View Mode be removed
> from the from the wiki and the ODF versions to make it clear what the final
> approved proposal is and so an observer will not be confused by the presence
> of alternative options.
Whatever the document repository ODF version or the wiki, and whatever the description text or the schema, all the modified contents are highlighted in order for members to read. For each proposal, the contents except the proposal itself are all about the context in the referred ODF specification, which is helpful for members to quickly understand the proposal.
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>  - Dennis
>
> PS: What was confusing for me during the call is that I was using the first
> link, the one to the wiki format of the proposal text.  I had been using the
> wiki form as definitive because I can open them from links in the agenda and
> I didn't realize that is not the official one.  I'm learning.  Thank you for
> your patience.  Now, It is even more confusing that the download area not
> only removes the extension from files, but it uses mysterious filenames as
> well.  I already had a copy of the ODF but I could not remember the name of
> it!  (The enabling of ODF in my browser doesn't seem to have worked.)  In
> the future, I will arrange to have the document-repository versions handy so
> I can look at them quickly during the call.  I will also pay attention to
> how proposal numbering is used in identifying and dating proposal documents.
> Sorry for the confusion.
This issue often confuses me too. Maybe need OASIS admin help. But I have been familiar with that now:)
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