Re: News about XForms 1.1 Advancement

Excellent news!
-Erik

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:12 AM, John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com> wrote:

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> Dear Forms WG,
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> The director's actual decision is in a W3C team only email link, which I
> can't access, but as can be seen in the email from Philippe below, we have
> permission to advance XForms 1.1 to recommendation.
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> Philippe asked if the document could be ready for publication next Tuesday,
> so I've prepared and updated the document to reflect Oct. 20 as the
> publication date. The errata document, and the process for generating future
> versions of it, also needed amendment.
>
> While at it, it seemed that the group had considered well enough the two
> small editorial issues regarding the relevant property and the submission
> process, and that it would be inappropriate to use more group time on the
> details due to the seeming obviousness of fixes.  Thus, I made editorial
> amendments to sections 6.1.4 and 11.2, with diff marks to enable comparison
> to the PR.
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> I've ensured the new document still pass the pubrules, and I prepared all
> information related to the publication request and sent the same.  Then, I
> prepared information related to requesting the transition announcement,
> including collecting together all testimonials, and sent the transition
> announcement request.
>
> Although not yet confirmed, the best information I have at this point is
> that XForms 1.1 will be published as a W3C Recommendation on Oct. 20, 2009.
>
> Best regards,
> John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
> STSM, Interactive Documents and Web 2.0 Applications
> Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
> Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
> IBM Victoria Software Lab
> E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com
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> ----- Forwarded by John Boyer/CanWest/IBM on 10/16/2009 10:59 AM -----
>  From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> To: John Boyer/CanWest/IBM@IBMCA
> Date: 10/15/2009 01:05 PM Subject: Re: XForms 1.1 Advancement
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> John,
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> since Steven is away, I'll need your help here.
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> So, first, we got a positive outcome. congratulations.
>
> Can we have the document ready for publication on October 20?
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> <snip/>
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> Philippe
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