OASIS will maintain a permanent archive of TC docs, lists, etc when a TC
shuts down. Essentially we just "freeze" the Kavi group; nothing more
can be added, but we don't delete anything.
-Karl
Hal Lockhart wrote:
> Most TCs maintain one or more issues lists on various aspects of their work.
> I don't see any real benefit to centralizing them, especially since they may
> go in and out of existence according to the needs of the TC.
>
> However, your question does raise an important unresolved issue. What
> happens after a TC goes out of existence? There is a considerable body of
> opinion that holds that TCs should do their work and go away and not become
> permanent, self perpetuating bodies. However, after a TC shuts down, what
> happens to questions, comments, bug reports, errata, documents, archives,
> identifiers, etc.?
>
> Hal
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Kenton [mailto:]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:29 AM
>>To:
>>Cc:
>>Subject: [chairs] A question for the Chairs
>>
>>
>>
>>A Question:
>>
>>My Committee, the XSLT / XPath Conformance TC, has produced a
>>conformance test suite comprising several thousand test cases.
>>From time to time we get questions or comments regarding these
>>tests. We keep track of these and attempt to resolve the issues
>>raised, in much the same way that a software development group
>>keeps track of bugs.
>>
>>My question: do other committees have a need to track issues,
>>and do you believe it would be useful for OASIS to provide a
>>central / standard way to deal with these?
>>
>>Thoughts / comments?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>jeff kenton
>>
>>
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