Thanks Peter. I will look to set up a working call towards the end of next week with all those that can make it to review the new draft. Hopefully that will help move things along and put us in a good position to agree the Primer at the next TC meeting.
John
From: Peter F Brown [mailto:peter@peterfbrown.com]
Sent: 22 February 2011 06:15
To: TGF TC List
Subject: [tgf] Editorial Processes - keep this mail for reference
Hi all:
Following on from last week’s TC meeting, the editors (Chris and myself) together with John, have had a couple of further rounds of editing and discussion. We will proceed now as follows:
1. Once we have received the formal template from the OASIS TC Administration, I will prepare a first formal draft of the ‘TGF Primer’. We aim to submit this to the TC by the end of this week;
2. This first draft will contain ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ at this early stage and contain a clear disclaimer that it is an early draft and that some/much of the content will probably be moved to a separate, standards-track, document as work progresses;
3. This first draft will not include material that I am preparing for a ‘full’ terminology nor the draft of a reference model – we already know that this is more likely to go in the ‘core’ standard deliverable, so I will leave it out of the Primer, and come back to it at a subsequent TC meeting.
4. The editors’ drafts will be paragraph and line-numbered and drafted in Word;
5. The editors’ drafts will be posted to the TC document repository in PDF only and all TC members will be notified by mail;
6. Any TC member working on a substantial section of this or any deliverable will be sent a copy of that section in an editable file (.doc, .docx, or .odf) and be asked to conform with some filenaming rules. The editors will maintain complete overview of all editable files and ensure that all stable versions are uploaded
7. TC members will be invited to comment on the text (and every new draft thereafter) by submitting a ‘New Issue’. All new issues should indicate the line number(s) concerned; give a short title in the subject line (helpful for threading subsequent discussions); and ndicate the nature of the issue (typo, editorial, conceptual, textual, etc). All new issues will be captured in a simple spreadsheet, the editors will comment and invite further feedback/discussion from the originator and the TC; Detailed guidance will be sent out with the first TGF Primer draft.
8. Based on other TC’s, a large portion of issues are dealt with easily between submitter and editors between meetings – this means that TC meetings can concentrating on discussing and resolving the major issues of concern.
9. The editors will submit the issues list, updated, to each TC meeting, with recommendations for discussion.
10. Generally, a new draft will be prepared in the days following each TC meeting and the cycle above will repeat.
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Peter
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