Spreadsheet Issue Nov 20 2024 Meeting

In response to our lengthy discussion about including a disclaimer in the document that the single source of truth is the assessment tool, so every change to the tool doesn't require a document change I filed the following Github issue: https://github.com/w3c/maturity-model/issues/232.

There was back and forth about whether or not we are publishing a tool, and what is the purpose of the spreadsheet. I found the source of the discrepancy. The spreadsheet was always intended, by our group, to be an example of implementation. In August of this year we agreed to add instructions on how to use the example spreadsheet. However, those instructions ended up getting incorporated into every single maturity model dimension, as a how to use the publication. This is not something that we agreed on, and it fundamentally alters the publication. We will revert this change and reference the spreadsheet as an example, as we have in all previous iterations.

We will continue working on a scoring method and can use the spreadsheet as a so called sanity check, as Janina puts it.