[ubl-lcsc] Copying a message from a new LCSC member (Chin Chee-Kai)

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

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Chee-Kai

i am passing on your comments about explaining the process to our QA group
as they are responsible for the review distribution.

i am unsure what you mean by 'working on a script to convert...', i thought
we had one of those already?  to my knowledge the perl script can generate
all XSDs except the re-usable one (it only does 98% of that).  i think the
issue was with name spacing and not the content of the components themselves.
 However I am sure Gunther (or someone else from tools and techniques) on
the list can clarify this.

Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> Thanks Tim.
>
> > > if we sounded like bureaucrats in our insistence on correct formats.
> > >     
> >   
> Pardon me, but for people who might be used to the free text email 
> replies in lists at IETF, W3C, etc where public comments are 
> actively sought as in this case, the insistence might have a tendency
> to turn people off.  I'm glad I persisted... but I do understand
> the difficulty and extra time involved if Bill would have to 
> start retyping/regrouping all the comments, especially when the files
> are plenty and large.
>
> Perhaps explaining more clearly and explicitly on the website the 
> reason for asking for feedbacks in RTF forms and the potential 
> large workload on LCSC if feedbacks come in in free form might 
> help on allaying potential negative image, if any, about the 
> choice of mechanism.  For instance, I didn't know (until you
> just explained) that the responses from LCSC will be returned
> to sender only after Apr 27th's meeting.  I probably would've
> expected some interactive exchanges like in many other lists,
> and probably concluded (based on expectation of interactive
> discussion) that the list isn't active.  I think I'm only trying
> to say that there may be people who may have different expectations
> as to how the public comment list works, and it is probably
> good to explain on website as what you've just done with me.
> Just my 2 cents.
>
>
> > > our plan is to collect and edit comments up until 14th April then
> > > distribute a set to all LCSC members.  At the Plenary meeting on April
> > > 27th we shall go through the comments and agree on the correct
> > > disposition.
> > >     
> >   
> This is certainly good so that the responses will not be 
> haphazard, or different from one another amongst LCSC members.
> UBL being not just a technical topic, the coordinated approach
> will help give UBL TC a consistent and coordinated position on
> matters.  Might it be good to append what you've just described
> to the page on:
> 	http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/
> ?
>
>
>
> > > meanwhile, i am happy to subscribe you to the Library Content discussion
> > > list, so you can participate in the work of our group.  you should
> > > receive confirmation of this soon. this may be the opportunity for you
> > > to contribute to our ongoing development and maybe clarify or resolve
> > > some of your comments.
> > >     
> >   
> Thanks.  As I am working on an automaton script to convert
> from the 0p70L Excel to XSDs, and am beginning to expose some 
> conversion issues/questions.  While I'm at it, can I ask if
> you know whether all the XSDs generated from "ubl.bat" and "EXXML.pl"
> are handicrafted further before they are dropped into the xsd
> directory?  The "Reusable.xls" was explicitly stated as 
> "DO NOT GENERATE THE Reusable.xsd from here" within "ubl.bat".
> What about the other XSDs?
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Chin Chee-Kai
> SoftML

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