Good, I forgot about the reconciliation approach from the older discussions.
Is it good enough for the FPDAM to be prepared against IS 26300:2006 as it
is now, before the DCORi are finalized, and sync it all in the
reconciliation?
- Dennis
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Subject: RE: [office] Re: OFFICE-2608 and Errata CD04 Defects
"Dennis E. Hamilton" <> wrote on 03/30/2010
02:44:04 PM:
> RE: [office] Re: OFFICE-2608 and Errata CD04 Defects
>
> PS: How does this square with ODF 1.1 already having been submitted, as
is,
> from OASIS to JTC1.
>
No problem there. The agreement with JTC1 is that they maintain an ISO
text that "technically equivalent" to the OASIS text. They are not
required to be verbatim duplicates. That gives us a little flexibility.
Since OASIS Errata do not change conformance, or make substantive changes,
then the presence of absence of errata corrections do not change whether
the texts are "technically equivalent".
And remember, the text that is balloted is not necessarily the same as the
text that is approved. ISO in this respect is different than OASIS. So
they can, if they want, go out with a ballot that is exactly the delta
between ISO/IEC 26300 and OASIS ODF 1.1. Then, any additional changes
that are necessary to restore corrections from COR1 and COR2 can be added
after the ballot ends, via the comment resolution process after the
ballot. This is a more expeditious approach than waiting for the DCOR's to
finish processing.
Let's take a hypothetical case.
Imagine ODF 1.1 has a spelling error. It has my name as Wier rather than
Weir.
We fix that in OASIS ODF 1.0 Errata, but OASIS ODF 1.1 is not corrected.
We have draft corrigenda containing that fix in SC34, but it is not
published yet.
And then we go in and want to do an ODF 1.1 amendment in ISO.
We do the diff between OASIS ODF 1.0 and OASIS ODF 1.2 and give them all
the deltas. Note that this does not fix the 'Wier' mispelling. This goes
out to ballot.
During the ballot we (ODF TC as liaison to SC34) sends a comment: "Need to
make sure final published text includes corrections from all published
corrigenda"
Ballot ends, and WG6 reviews all comments received. They see our comment
and agree to it. In most cases no additional work will need to be done,
since the amendment is amending the corrected ODF 1.0 text, it already
starts with the spelling correction. But in some cases we may have a
change conflict that can be resolved in the DCOR text before publication.
Finally we approve OASIS Errata that contain any corrections necessary to
make the OASIS ODF 1.1 text correspond to the ISO text.
This is what I meant originally when I said we could "back load" the
application of the corrections. Get the ballot started now. Even though
the amendment will be published in a form where it is an amendment of the
corrected text, we can go ahead even without having those final
corrections, get the ballot started, and then fix it up in the
reconciliation process at the end. (And for the record I had this idea
before Obama did)
-Rob
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