Re: publication update / to-do list

On 18 Sep 2009, at 05:11, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>
> We're actually on schedule to publish next Tuesday.  The main  
> remaining
> hurdle is something called a Transition Meeting, on Monday, where the
> Director checks to make sure we've followed the process properly.  If
> that goes well, we should be able to publish on Tuesday.
>
> The documents are basically done.  I've done new Editor's Drafts,  
> dated
> today, and also gone a step farther and installed them in their  
> expected
> publication place, which allows for checking a few more things.   
> You can
> see them there, with names like (and linked from):
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-overview-20090922/
>
> If all goes as planned, on the 22nd, I can just take the big yellow  
> box
> away.   (Look at the page if you don't know what I mean by that.)
>
> So, we still have a few days to fix any last little errors.  Fix  
> them on
> the wiki and let me know, so I can regenerate the drafts.
>
> Things to do:
>
>     ** Check the change log.  I believe Ian implemented my  
> suggestion of
>        making the "Status of this document" section just have boiler
>        plate, and putting the real changes in an appendix which has  
> the
>        HTML id "changelog".  For example, look at:
>
>        http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-syntax-20090922/#status- 
> changes
>          and
>        http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-syntax-20090922/#changelog
>
>        Please make sure all documents follow this structure.
>
>        PLEASE look at the color-coded diff (on the PR version with the
>        yellow box, NOT the Editor's Drafts) and make sure the
>        Changes-Since-CR lines up with what the color-coded diff shows.
>        It would be embarassing (or worse) to have someone see a
>        non-trivial change that's not mentioned in the change log.
>
>        We can delete the change details from
>        http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Round_8
>        I'm leaving them there, for now, in case they contain useful
>        information that's not in the changelog yet.
>        (Ian, you mentioned leaving them there for the Director, but he
>        didn't mind it the other way at the RIF transition.)

Done.

>
>    **  It'd be nice if someone fixed the abstracts to actually be two
>        paragraphs, as in http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Conformance,
>        instead of just having a <br/>, which doesn't give a good
>        paragraph break.

Done.

>
> I think that's it.  I do have a few remaining questions/issues:
>
>       - What are we doing about the "final location of the  
> repository of
>         user-contributed test cases"?

Good question. Can we use a www.w3C.org location? Can we continue  
with the existing location?

>
>       - How are we finally publishing the schema document for owl/xml?
>         I should like in my GRDDL transform.

This should definitely be at a www.w3C.org location.

>
>       - Are we doing a custom PDF for Quick Ref (one that's really two
>         pages)?  It's time to include that, if we're going to make it
>         offical, and I don't see it.

It would be good to have one. Do we need it for the transition  
meeting? I assume not.

>
> Some things I fixed recently:
>
>       - The PDF title bug that's been annoying Michael  :-)
>       - some missing references in Conformance and NFR
>       - added a #changelog for PlainLiteral
>       - wrote SOTD text explaining what we're doing with XSD 1.1

Thanks.

>
> Anything I'm forgetting?

I hope not :-)

Ian



>
>     -- Sandro
>
> PS (for amusement value): it turned out the thing I was forgetting was
> who I was talking to.  I accentally mailed this to public-rif- 
> wg@w3.org
> instead of public-owl-wg@w3.org, making them wonder how RIF were going
> to be publishing on Tuesday.
>

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