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Subject: FW: [chairs] RDDL / RSS and simplifying "busy work" for spec' editors / staff?
- From: "Patil, Sanjay" <sanjay.patil@sap.com>
- To: <ws-rx-editors@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:02:18 -0700
Here is an idea about simplifying maintenance of the
status metadata of specifications. I thought you may be interested in
this.
Personally, I am not sure how decoupling the status
information helps in solving the problem. Perhaps I have not misunderstood the
problem itself!
-- Sanjay
Folks,
Like all of us involved in moving spec's through the process - I'm
constantly wanting the mechanics to be easier to facilitate and the burden on
the OASIS supporting staff to be lessened - while retaining the rigour
needed.
It seems that the new IPR changes have introduced a doubling up on the
number of steps to go through - and hence potential revisions of
documents.
I'm wondering if we can de-couple the actual status of the specification
from the specification documents and schemas themselves by referencing to a
central status tracker instead?
This would therefore reduce the continual editing of each item - just to
update the status indicator. That editing also adds
confusion factor - because every document appears to change at each
step even if no substantive changes were actually done.
One candidate for the tracker is the RDDL - another would be to create an
RSS document - that tracks the status of the specification of each TC centrally,
and locally on each TC page. The RSS would have the side benefit of
allowing subscription to that to do notifications of changes.
Either way the RDDL and RSS could be directly linked on the Kavi TC page as
a "Status" link that would be clickable along with the other standard
links. That linkage would be noted on the title page of the specification
and in-line in schemas - something like
http://status.oasis-open.org/tcabbrev
.
Thanks, DW
"The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472
B.C.)
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