- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:19:25 -0500
- To: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-semweb-cg@w3.org
After today's telecon adjourned we had a short discussion about schedule for the working group. Since there was no log of this meeting, I am sending the following summary of the discussion - I ask those who attended to feel free to correct me if my recollections are wrong: 1) We concluded that our documents were roughly in the following shape: Guide and Use Cases are ready to go - modulo any changed caused by later work Overview and References need reviewing and polishing, but there is reason to believe they are converging to a publishable shape Semantics and Test need work - this is not in any way a reflection on their editors (who have all been doing incredible amounts of work), but on the fact that for the first time we've really probed the technical details down to the lowest level, and now need to make some final decisions and then create appropriate test cases 2) Pretty much all participants agreed that we could not take a very long time on this level, but that we needed more than a week to solve them. We are not yet ready to say how long, but "steam rolling" rather than dealing with the "issues" seems like a bad idea 3) Jeremy will prepare a list of what he thinks are critical issues for the WG to discuss, and try to prioritize them. Peter will respond (when he can) and best tell us which ones he think cause real problems, which ones are ok, which ones are ugly but he could live with. 4) these discussions will not all be on the WG archive, but will be archived at www-archives and all of us will get a chance to comment once there a list of a few issues 5) the chairs will keep a strict watch on this, and make sure we keep moving -- we will try to be tough about not reopening old decisions unless there is reason to do so, at the same time we will be willing to reopen issues, or rapidly create new "mini issues" when needed to reach consensus on this. 6) We will aim for end of February (chairs note: if not sooner), for LC release - but we are not setting specific dates because we need to really determine what is left to do in this "engineering fix" stage. 7) During this period I, and I hope some other members of the group, will work on implementation and aspects relating to moving from CR to PR, so we hope we can have a shorter LC period, and more confidence of skipping CR, while we spend the time working these final issues. [ [note: particularly needed are implementations of Lite and DL reasoners that can handle our test sets and be actual OWL, rather than DAML or OIL or other syntax, systems - this could include building mappers in the syntax and then just using existing systems]] Again, the above are my best recollection notes, and my plans as chair for getting us done without too long a delay. My own note: I still worry that delay adds risk w/respect to adoption and AC politics - however, so does a bad design - we must work hard as a WG to find the right balance between these. -Jim H. p.s. I cc the W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group so they can be aware of this scheduling change and our current best guess plans. -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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