OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

[office] OpenDocument TC coordination call minutes 2009-03-01

  • 1.  [office] OpenDocument TC coordination call minutes 2009-03-01

    Posted 03-03-2009 15:15
    * Rollcall
    +Charles Schulz, Ars Aperta
      Peter Junge, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd.
    +Don Harbison, IBM
    +Mingfei Jia, IBM
    +Yue Ma, IBM
    +Rob Weir, IBM
    +Patrick Durusau
    +Dennis E. Hamilton
    +David Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses
    +David Faure, KDE e.V.
    +Eric Patterson, Microsoft
    +Stephen Peront, Microsoft
    +Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance
    +Bob Jolliffe, Republic of South Africa, Department of Science and
    Technology
    +Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems (presiding)
    +Eike Rathke, Sun Microsystems
    +Oliver Wittmann, Sun Microsystems
    
    Svante Schubert is on a leave of absence
    
    Voting Members are indicated with a + before their name.
    
    * 16/17 voting members present, so quorum requirements have been met.
    
    Florian Reuter will loose voting rights after the end of
    this call.
    
    
    * The agenda was approved
    
    Dennis suggested that his "Expression of Support for Maintenance
    Principles" proposal gets an agenda item of the next TC call.
    
    
    * Minutes from 2009-02-23 coordination call:
    
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200902/msg00227.html
    
    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    
    * Call logistics
    
    Starting with March, the 9th, the TC call start time will be 14:00 UTC,
    that is, one hour earlier for all countries that do not switch to
    daylight saving time on March, the 8th.
    
    
    * Comment Mailing List
    
    Michael asked that in alignment with the OASIS technical committee
    process no discussions should take place on the public comment mailing list.
    
    
    * Conformance Clauses
    
    It has been clarified that the conformance clauses will not be proceeded
    as a separate proposal, but as part of the ODF 1.2 part 1 draft. That
    is, any changes to the conformance clauses will not result in a new
    conformance clause proposal, but will be included in the next ODF 1.2
    part 1 draft. Future drafts will be labeled Committee Draft 1 Rev 1,
    Committee Draft 1 Rev 2, and so on, until the TC approves one of these
    drafts as a new Committee Draft. The revisions of a committee draft do 
    not have to be approved as committee drafts, and have the status of 
    working drafts only unless they are approved as committee drafts.
    
    It was agreed that all proposals for changing the text of the
    conformance clauses shall include the revised text itself, and that the
    TC approves or disapproves only changes to the conformance clauses that
    contain the revised text.
    
    David Faure indicated that the current conformance clauses are okay for
    KOffice and that there are currently no plans for conformance clause
    related proposals from the KOffice TC members.
    
    
    * ODF 1.2 Draft: Next steps
    
    It has been clarified that the TC must respond to all public comments
    that are received on the comment mailing list during a public review
    period. This does not apply to comments that are received outside a
    public review period. A public review for the ODF 1.2 draft has not been 
    requested so far.
    
    It has been further clarified that the TC collect public comments in the
    public comment registry spreadsheet and that it discusses them in
    chronological order within TC calls.
    
    Comments regarding the ODF 1.2 draft from TC members must be send to the
    TC's mailing list. It was suggested that these should include a proposal
    for a revised specification text, unless a TC member asks for a
    clarification of some text. In that case, other TC members may reply
    with a suggestion how to change the text in question. It was further
    suggested that the TC editor may integrate any suggestion for text
    changes without a discussion or approval by the TC, unless a TC member
    raises objections to a change on the the mailing list.
    
    It has also been clarified that so far, only part 1 was approved as a 
    committee draft. It was discussed whether a public review should be 
    conducted for all parts together or separately. The discussion was 
    adjourned.
    
    
    * Adjournment
    
    The meeting was adjourned at 5:10pm CET	
    
    --
    Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering
    StarOffice/OpenOffice.org
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