Comment on the status of work in the Assembly TC

Folks,

As we approach the end of the first
public review period, I'd like to make a couple of comments regarding the

state of play in the SCA Assembly TC.

My first observation is that the number
of open issues has crept up.  There are now 3 new and 21 open issues.

Many of these issues have proposals,
but not all of them. Some issues appear fairly simple (eg fix a simple
bug in

the schema, etc) but others are more
complex.  We need to think through how we are to get through the work
of

getting all these issues resolved.  For
the issues without proposals, expect myself and Martin to be asking for

volunteers to build proposals!!

The second observation is that we have
received only a small number of comments from the public review itself.

These comments are however, meaty ones
and mainly have to do with the knotty question of conformance.  I'd

like us to engage in more email debate
on these topics so that we can move towards a consensus.  It may be

worthwhile us considering an open email
debate with the raisers of the issues so that we can pinpoint the real

matters that are at issue here.

Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.

Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.

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