TAP pas de deux

[Keith Noddle]

I have to agree with Ray - take your eye off the mailing list for any 
length of time and interesting things happen that make you kick yourself 
for missing them! I really pleased we've found a way forward; my thanks 
to everyone who has worked so hard to make this happen.

Thinking about how we capitalise on what we have achieved whilst still 
keeping things well and truly in the DAL public domain, I've asked Pat 
to publish the source of the TAP documents so that folk can work on 
words and meaning in the areas that concern them the most.

Treating the development of the TAP spec in the same fashion as that of 
an Open Source project, I have also asked Pat to act as "document 
integrator" (a sort of Linus Torvalds of TAP!) so that the various 
contributions we are now seeing can be quickly discussed and (when 
agreed) incorporated into the master copy of the TAP documents for all 
to see.

I'm sure we are now close to finishing the substance of TAP - again my 
thanks to all concerned.

Keith.

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