UCD problem in SSA/SpectrumDM

Keith Noddle ktn at star.le.ac.uk
Tue Nov 24 07:16:34 PST 2009


Hi Bob,

Thanks for the clarification and my apologies for missing this in the 
first place. All we need to do now is determine what goes where and when.

Keith.

> Hi Keith.  This is stated explicitly in Section 1.2 of the standards process
> document:
> 
> " After a document reaches Recommendation status, subsequent revisions
> retrace the promotion process.  Changes that are backward compatible result
> in increments in the number to the right of the decimal place (1.1, 1.2,
> ...).  Changes that are not backward compatible require an increment of the
> number of the left of the decimal place (2.0), with subsequent backward
> compatible revisions following the same pattern (2.1, 2.2, ...)."
> 
> Having been one of the architects of this review and promotion process, this
> discussion makes me wonder whether we need a more expedient way to deal with
> legitimate mistakes.  At the level of typos I would hope we could agree that
> these could simply be fixed, e.g., with the oversight of the standing
> committee on process.  A new version of the document (with date of issuance
> revised) would replace the previous one and changes duly noted in the change
> log part of the paper.
> 
> For mistakes such as the incorrect UCD that led to this discussion the
> situation is not black-and-white.  Such a mistake causes changes to code,
> which invokes the "new version" rule, but hardly seems to require engaging
> the entire review machinery.  Of course, allowing things into this gray area
> becomes a matter of judgment (by whom?), and risks a foray into
> arbitrariness.  Maybe we need a lightweight "re-review" process for such
> situations.  In any case, let's try to not get out of control with rule
> making, lest we have to start hiring legal counsel into all of our teams!
> 
> Your approach of gathering things together makes sense to me.



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