OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-09-2007 14:30 
    Dear TC members,

below Rob and Patrick have made some suggestions how we could create a 
process for the comment handling. I personally like these ideas, and I 
think we should establish such a process. However, if we establish this 
process, we need someone who keeps track of comments, and the comment 
registry. Is someone of you interested in taking over this task, or 
volunteers to do so?

We further may require some lightweight process for feature requests 
that we get as comments. I could imagine that the one who keeps track of 
the comments alerts the TC of new requests, and asks for a volunteer who
may process the request within the TC. The task of this person would be 
to introduce the request to the TC so that the TC can accept or decline 
it, and, in case the request gets accepted, to advance the proposal to a 
state where the TC can vote on it. Obviously, there could be different 
volunteers for different proposals.

Best regards

Michael


  • 2.  Re: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-09-2007 16:22 
    On 5/9/07, Michael Brauer


  • 3.  RE: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-09-2007 16:57 
    Hello again everyone,

  I guess it's my day to weigh in on postings.

  OASIS *requires* all comments from non-TC members to be submitted through the OASIS comment mail list - this is for
IPR reasons and ensures that anyone posting agrees to the IPR Policy for the particular TC. Also, OASIS Policy requires
that all work of the TC be hosted on OASIS servers (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.8).

  There are a number of TCs that use various systems to track issues lists - some use XML, some use spreadsheets, some
use the TC wiki. In each case links are maintained to the original comment in the email archives, a responsible party is
assigned and the status of outstanding issues is reviewed at each meeting.

  Note that any comments received during a public review *must* be tracked and logged and that log becomes part of the
submission for a Committee Specification vote.

  Please feel free to contact me regarding any questions or if I can provide any assistance.

Regards,

Mary

   

> 
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        Original Message


  • 4.  Re: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-09-2007 18:24 
    Mary, thank you for bringing these constraints to my attention. May I
respectfully suggest that OASIS consider getting into the 21st Century
in regard to issue submission and tracking. Email is a really lousy
solution to the problem. It might as well be voice-mail. :-)

Best regards,

Marbux (who is still waiting for plain text editing to be enabled in
Drupal on opendocument.xml.org so more complex and far less buggy
formatting can be used, a 10-minute task for OASIS support staff for
which I provided the step-by-step cookbook several months ago).


On 5/9/07, Mary McRae


  • 5.  Re: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-10-2007 06:33 
    Hi,  Mary,

I thought I might write again to make it more clear that my last note
was intended to be humorous. I have worked in large organizations
myself and am well aware of the difficulties of making changes happen
quickly in such a setting.

But I thought it wickedly ironic that an organization that, inter
alia, develops business process and workflow XML languages is still
insisting on email for submission and tracking of issues. It's somehow
akin to using a typewriter as the primary tool to develop algorithms
for a word processor or using the Pony Express to transmit maintenance
data for a working telegraph line.  Do-able, but definitely not taking
advantage of the very tools OASIS helps create for others in similar
circumstances.

Hence my quip about the OASIS and the 21st Century. It was one of
those moments that gave me a much-appreciated giggle. I'm thankful I
didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read your post; I'd be buying
a new keyboard!

Thank you for the happy moment when I needed one,

Marbux


On 5/9/07, marbux


  • 6.  RE: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-10-2007 13:36 
    No offense taken; what members often fail to realize is that we are entirely supported by member dues, and have only a
dozen or so people on staff including our IT dept of 3. We now have a great team in place that has made tremendous
strides in our IT infrastructure,  enabling us to add to new offerings to our members such as Drupal-based focus areas
and the OASIS Library currently in development. We have two major sources of input to the ongoing development schedule:
internal-focused (activities necessary to ensure our infrastructure is solid) and external-focused (those needs
expressed by our members). Scott McGrath, Senior Director of Member Services, has been sending around a survey asking
members a series of questions to help improve the organization
(https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/2007_Member_Survey/members/register.php). One of those questions is: "The one
infrastructure tool or system that OASIS should provide to make my TC work more valuable is:". If you haven't yet
completed the survey, I urge you to do so. We take member feedback very seriously.

Regards,

Mary 

> 
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        Original Message


  • 7.  Re: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-10-2007 19:43 
    Thank you, Mary. I wasn't aware of the survey and completing it is my next task.

My sympathies on not having a larger staff to help herd hundreds of cats. :-)

Best regards,

Marbux

On 5/10/07, Mary McRae


  • 8.  Re: [office] Comments and feature requests

    Posted 05-10-2007 17:25 

    I'll volunteer.

    -Rob

    ___________________________

    
Rob Weir
    
Software Architect
    
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
    
IBM Software Group

    
email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
    
phone: 1-978-399-7122
    
blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/

    Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM wrote on 05/09/2007 10:29:47
AM:

    
> Dear TC members,
    
>
    
> below Rob and Patrick have made some suggestions how we could create
a
    
> process for the comment handling. I personally like these ideas, and
I
    
> think we should establish such a process. However, if we establish
this
    
> process, we need someone who keeps track of comments, and the comment
    
> registry. Is someone of you interested in taking over this task, or
    
> volunteers to do so?
    
>
    
> We further may require some lightweight process for feature requests
    
> that we get as comments. I could imagine that the one who keeps track
of
    
> the comments alerts the TC of new requests, and asks for a volunteer
who
    
> may process the request within the TC. The task of this person would
be
    
> to introduce the request to the TC so that the TC can accept or decline
    
> it, and, in case the request gets accepted, to advance the proposal
to a
    
> state where the TC can vote on it. Obviously, there could be different
    
> volunteers for different proposals.
    
>
    
> Best regards
    
>
    
> Michael
    
>
    
> 
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        Original Message


Related Content