WG4 comment collection system

[Francis Cave]

I agree with Jirka is that we ideally need a system in which all submissions
can be commented upon. However, my experience with UK submissions recently
is that it is helpful - both to the submitter in getting it right, and to
the Project Editor in seeing how the proposed solution would affect the
current text - to express the Proposed Solution as edited, styled text. At
Doug has already stated, this isn't possible using the current comment
collection system. 

To overcome this problem, as a minimum the system would need to be enhanced
so that a facsimile image of the original submission - or at least of the
Proposed Solution - could if appropriate be embedded in or (perhaps more
feasibly) linked to the Proposed Solution field in the form. A link to a PDF
of the original submission would probably do the trick.

Francis Cave



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz]
> Sent: 19 March 2009 08:21
> To: Doug Mahugh
> Cc: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: Re: WG4 comment collection system
> 
> Doug Mahugh wrote:
> 
> > One aspect we will need to discuss and decide is how to manage
> > comments on defect reports.  We had discussed adding threaded
> > commenting functionality to the system, but that was when we were
> > thinking that all defect reports would reside in it.  I think we'd
> all
> > agree that it's not a good idea to have multiple systems for tracking
> > comments on defect reports, so we need to settle on an approach that
> > works for all DRs, regardless of how they're submitted.
> 
> One possibility is to transfer all comments received by other channels
> into comment collection system and then use this system to manage
> comments and their processing.
> 
> 				Jirka
> 
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