Re: WOWG: Documents to review (all members - deadlines included)

On 24 Dec 2002, Jim Hendler wrote:
> WE ARE ASKING TO HAVE ALL REVIEWS DONE BY Jan 2!!

Much too little review time, particularly for those of us blessed with 
seasonal holidays.

> Apologies that this falls during the winter (summer in the Southern 
> Hemisphere) break, but it is necessary for us to meet our Last Call 
> calendar

Conclusion the calendar is too aggressive.

> Only those changed sections will be open for review/discussion at the 
> face to face

Unacceptable.

Any aspect of the documents including omissions (which may have no associated 
section) should be up for discussion in the f2f before last call.

Also such a restriction permits editors to unilaterally to ignore review 
comments; and then the ignored comments are excluded from the agenda?

Given the tightness of the review deadline it seems more appropriate to allow 
late comments in a fairly unrestricted fashion.

Since I suspect this is the first time that many of us are reviewing our 
documents together as a collection I suspect that there will be cross 
document issuettes and unclarities. I find the syntactic restrictions on OWL 
Lite and OWL DL to be one of them: the only documents that are clear that a 
single triple ( <a> <p> "v" . ) is not OWL Lite are the mapping part of 
semantics and Test Cases. This is not listed anywhere as a change from 
Daml+Oil, despite it being one that has significant practical impact.

I suspect we need some process for tracking such issuettes.

The process currently being followed will result in many last call issues. A 
last call issue is significantly more administrative work than a prelast call 
issue. If the WG wishes to have such work then so be it, but I suggest that 
it would be better to improve our docs before last call.

Jeremy

Received on Monday, 30 December 2002 11:39:46 UTC