WG4 comment collection system

[Doug Mahugh]

In discussing the possibilities for how we proceed, I think it may be useful to distinguish between comment collection and comment processing.  We had originally started creating a collection system, but it sounds like most of us are more concerned with processing (i.e., tracking the status of our work, and the associated activities such as commenting on proposals) rather than collection.

One option that we could consider is whether to remove the functionality for entering a DR altogether, and instead view the system as a tool for tracking these submissions.  One potential benefit of that approach is that we could stop spending our time on modifications to improve the authoring/data-entry experience, and instead focus on the workflow that follows.  One potential drawback may be that we'd need to break submitted batches of DRs into a separate document for each one, rather than submitting a larger document containing multiple DRs.

- Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Lund Stocholm [mailto:jesper.stocholm at ciber.dk] 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:21 AM
To: Jirka Kosek; Doug Mahugh
Cc: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
Subject: RE: WG4 comment collection system

Jirka, all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz]
> 
> 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.

I agree with you. We should have one, single consolidated system
containing all DRs. If some DRs are submitted using e.g. PDF, OOXML,
DOC, ODF etc to display fancy stuff, the document could simply be
attached to the DR in the consolidated system to preserve original data.

Jesper Lund Stocholm
ciber Danmark A/S