Thorsten Zachmann <> wrote on 07/15/2010 03:13:37 PM:
> >
> Does this mean that allowing office:annotation will be considered toget
fixed
> for ODF 1.2?
>
The question was also asked earlier in the thread, whether we can add
features.
I think this is clearer if you consider the voting math. To get to a
Committee Specification we require that 2/3 of voting TC members approve,
with no more than 25% disapprove. Since we have ~15 voting members at any
given time, this means that approval of 10 is required, and any 4 could
block.
This does not prevent the TC from adding additional features to the draft,
but it does mean that there would need to be a very high level of
consensus that such a change is necessary.
And remember that we have a long list of member proposals, made last year,
that we've already deferred to ODF-Next.
So let's get ODF 1.2 out, so we can start on ODF-Next, where we will have
much broader abilities to integrate new features.
Perhaps it would also help if we committed to have a far faster cycle for
the next version of ODF? I'd propose aiming for a 12-month or 18-month
cycle. That way, the sting of not having a feature make it into ODF 1.2 is
not so great, since we'll have another release only a year away.
In any case, I'll likely vote against adding new features at this point
unless there is something of extraordinary importance.
-Rob
