[oslc-rm] [oslc-core] DRAFT of minor updates to RM 2.0 specification ready for review

[Steve K Speicher]

> From: John Arwe/Poughkeepsie/IBM at IBMUS
> To: oslc-core at open-services.net, oslc-rm at open-services.net, 
> Date: 10/04/2011 09:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [oslc-core] DRAFT of minor updates to RM 2.0 specification 
> ready for review
> Sent by: oslc-core-bounces at open-services.net
> 
> > Unless I hear of objections by email I will action the above on 30 
> September and make these changes final. 
> Process issue: part of a transparent process is avoiding what are or 
even 
> might reasonably appear to be unilateral decisions, even "small" ones 
like 
> length of review period should be made at a working group meeting (Core, 
in 
> this case).  As I remember the last Core meeting, we agreed that you'd 
draft
> the diffs and Core members would review via email, nothing about length 
of 
> review period (miss on our part)  
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/
> OslcCoreMeeting20110921 . 
> Especially when we're treading in new territory (adding to an existing 
spec 
> w/o a full new-version spec cycle), we need everyone to be comfortable 
with 
> events and transparency + clarity are key. 

I don't consider this necessarily a process issue.  WG are mostly 
self-directed with some general guidelines [1].  Could this guidelines be 
more complete? sure but we still need to make progress and we are being 
transparent about it.  We discussed this at the RM meeting and thought it 
would be good to set a date so it wouldn't continue forever as there are 
implementers affected by this change.  In my past life in W3C, we agreed 
to this 2 week review timeframe.  We should discuss if this makes sense as 
a broader "guideline" but think it is still just that.  We need to give 
folks enough time to review, depending on the proposed changes it may 
warrant a different review cycle. Be interested to see how others see 
this.

-- Steve

[1] - 
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcWorkgroupPrinciplesandBestPractices