RE: [office] OFFICE-3311 - Identifiers - review and consolidate identifiersand references to identifiers

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 01/18/2011 07:00:35 PM:

> 
> Let me jump to your last concern first, that it is a dramatic breaking
> change.
> 
> And your point would be?
> 
> That poor design has an afterlife until replaced by some wholly other
> design, which has its own problems? Which persist until they are
> eventually replaced? 
> 
> If we are talking about a new version, a 2.0, not a 1.* release, why not
> have breaking changes?
>

I'm not sure that we have decided whether ODF-Next is ODF 1.3 
(backwards-compatible release) or ODF 2.0 (a more ambitious update).  The 
reason I called it "ODF-Next" originally was to avoid taking a stand on 
that question.

But I suppose we can only defer that decision for so long...

-Rob