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Subject: Re: [sca-j] Plan for getting CSDs with dependencies published
Ok. Thanks. -Anish -- On 7/28/2011 10:51 AM, Paul Knight wrote: > Hi Anish and all, > > This looks like a reasonable approach. We will not reject a document at > the CSD level that contains a currently-non-working link to an expected > OASIS document for which we have a reasonable expectation of near-term > publication. > > (NOTE: I have not verified the specific CSD numbers mentioned in this > message.) > > Regards, > Paul > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Anish Karmarkar > <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com <mailto:Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>> wrote: > > Dave found a typo in one of the URLs. > The policy spec URL should be: > http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-__1.1-spec-csd05.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-1.1-spec-csd05.pdf> > > and not: > http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-__1.1-spec-cd05.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-1.1-spec-cd05.pdf> > > (s/cd05/csd05/) > > I'm also cc'ing Robin/Chet/Paul since the resend of my original > email to, what I though was the right, TCAdmin alias bounced too. > > -Anish > -- > > On 7/27/2011 2:49 PM, Anish Karmarkar wrote: > > [Resending, as I have the incorrect tcadmin email address in the 1st > try. Apologies] > > > Hi, > > Per our call this week [1], I've including below a plan for > publishing > four of our specs that have dependencies on other approved but > as-yet-unpublished OASIS specs, as CSDs. This plan, I believe, > complies > with the recent email [2] sent by the TCAdmin. Per Martin Chapman's > suggestion, I'm cc'ing the TAB and the TCAdmin as they are > meeting this > week and may be able to advise us on the plan as well as make > tweaks to > the process doc, if necessary. > > Issue: > > The SCA-J TC has four WDs that are (almost) ready for > publication as CSDs: > 1) SCA-J Common Annotations and APIs (CAA) > 2) TestCases for SCA-J Common Annotation and APIs (TC4CAA) > 2) SCA-J POJO Component Implementation specification (POJO) > 3) SCA-J POJO Complement Implementation testcases (TC4POJO) > > TC4CAA and POJO normatively reference CAA. TC4POJO normatively > references POJO. In addition, both the CAA and POJO specs > normatively > reference SCA Assembly and SCA Policy specifications > concurrently being > developed in the SCA-Assembly and SCA-Policy TCs. The > SCA-Assembly and > SCA-Policy dependencies are on CSDs that have been approved by the > respective TCs and are in the TCAdmin queue, but are not > published yet. > Fortunately, the reference directed dependency graph is acyclic. > > The TC would like to approve all four CSDs listed above in the same > meeting and have them be published as such, at the same time or > as close > to each other as practicable. This requires that either the > normative > reference section of the WDs be updated after the TC approval OR > that > the WDs approved by the TC include references to specifications that > will be published in the future. In the proposal below, I have > chosen > the latter option. > > Proposal: > > Since the specs do not have mutual dependencies and since the > URLs of > as-yet-unpublished CSDs are entirely predictable thanks to the > strict > OASIS naming guidelines, I would like to suggest that we solve this > problem as follows: > > 1) Since the URLs, names, status of the specs in question are > predictable or fixed, have the editors update all the normative > references in all the four specs to the latest expected (after > approval) > CSD URLs. This means that > a) the CAA and POJO spec will reference the latest approved (but not > published -- it is in the TCAdmin queue) assembly > (http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-assembly/sca-__assembly-1.1-spec-csd08.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-assembly/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-csd08.pdf>) > and policy > (http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-__1.1-spec-cd05.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-1.1-spec-cd05.pdf>) > specs. Note that these URLs are not currently 'alive' but will > be when > the TCAdmin processes the corresponding request in the TCAdmin > queue. > b) TC4CAA and POJO spec will reference the latest about to be > approved > CAA spec > (http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-j/sca-javacaa-1.1-__spec-csd06.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-j/sca-javacaa-1.1-spec-csd06.pdf>). > Again this URL is not currently 'alive'. > c) TC4POJO will reference the latest about to be approved CAA spec > (http://docs.oasis-open.org/__opencsa/sca-j/sca-javaci-1.1-__spec-csd04.pdf > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-j/sca-javaci-1.1-spec-csd04.pdf>). > Again > this URL is not currently 'alive'. > > 2) After TC approval and after the four requests are filed by > the chair > for publication of the new CSDs, the chair will update all the four > corresponding JIRA issues to record the dependencies between various > JIRA issues. > > > Additional process document issue for the TAB/TCAdmin to consider: > > This problem is solved in the process document via the designated > cross-references [3]. But DCRs apply only to CN/CS/OS; CSDs are > explicitly excluded. > > Thanks. > > -Anish Karmarkar > SCA-J TC co-Chair. > -- > > [1] > http://lists.oasis-open.org/__archives/sca-j/201107/__msg00024.html > <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca-j/201107/msg00024.html> > [2] > http://lists.oasis-open.org/__archives/members/201107/__msg00007.html > <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201107/msg00007.html> > [3] > http://www.oasis-open.org/__policies-guidelines/tc-__process#crossRefs > <http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#crossRefs> > > ------------------------------__------------------------------__--------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. 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