Re: Acknowledgements and editors

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

Fortunately, the TC Process rules are fairly simple on this point:

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2010-07-28#quality-acks

"Acknowledgements. Any Work Product that is approved by the TC at any
level must include a list of people who participated in the
development of the Work Product. This list shall be initially compiled
by the Chair, and any Member of the TC may add or remove their names
from the list by request."

Thus, while it may be respectful and courteous professionally to
recognize by name persons who have contributed in the past, the
TC Process imposes formally no obligation upon the TC to do so.

- Robin

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
<rden@loc.gov> wrote:
> For acknowledgements - I have to discuss this with Robin - but I am inclined
> to want to say something along the lines of  "The following people were
> members of the OASIS SWS TC At the time of publication of this specification
> " and list just us six: Larry, Tony, Jan, Ralph, Matthew, Ray.   I honestly
> do not want to have to go through an exercise that could take us back more
> than 25 years to determine who contributed to this work.  We would certainly
> either miss important contributors, or end up with a list of more than 200
> people. And I seriously doubt that I could construct such a list with my
> failing memory.
>
> For editors - we can list different sets of editors for each document. I
> propose:
>
> APD -- all six of us
> SRU 2.0 -- all six
> SRU 1.2 -- Ray
> OpenSearch -- Tony, Ray
> Scan -- Ralph, Jan, Matthew
> Explain -- Jan, Ralph, Larry
> CQL -- all six
>
> --Ray
>
>



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