Re: [xmile] macros + filters

[Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>]

Hello Karim, I've replied in line below.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Karim Chichakly
<kchichakly@iseesystems.com> wrote:
> Hi Bobby,
>
> We have talked about macros at TC meetings and decided to leave them in.
> They were not just added, but carried over from the draft as we discussed.

I understand they were carried over from the pre-OASIS draft, but
there was not much discussion of the details of the macro
specification in this TC in the meetings I attended, and I haven't
seen mention of them in the meeting notes of meetings I've missed.  I
certainly could have missed something, tho!  Please point me at any
meeting notes I missed, thanks.

> You seem to have a large number of issues with the spec.  The appropriate
> forum - since you are on the committee - is to come to the meeting on Friday
> and bring them up.  This level of technical detail - and this level of
> raising entirely new issues from a TC member - should be handled in the TC
> meeting not through lots of e-mails that only a few people answer.  We meet
> often enough to address these issues as a group.

There are 5 active members of the TC that are technically-minded that
I am aware of (you, me, Billy, Will, Bob), and the majority of them
have been engaging with my emails.  I disagree with you here - I think
the official, public TC email list is a perfectly valid place for me
to raise concerns, and it is disconcerting to me that you are
discouraging public discussion.

I will certainly reiterate my concerns at the meeting on Friday, but I
don't understand why you think I should keep them private until then.

yours,
Bobby