Provenance DM: WD stage ended

[Ole Streicher]

Dear all,

unfortunately the document editor did not have any communication with me
about the issues in the past five weeks. Even explicit requests to
discuss the issues were ignored. So, there were absolutely no attempts
to obtain consensus for any of the issues I raised. Other authors (which
were not contacted by the editor) also did not have a chance to take
part in the decision process.

This leads now to the situation that his list of answers and changes is
incomplete, partially wrong and does not have consensus among the
authors of the draft.

IVOA standards development should be however transparent and consent
driven; not even attempting to reach common consent between the authors
during the four week WD period is a failure of that process.

Therefore, I request (again, this time publicly on the DM list) that we
must try to reach consensus before a PR is promoted. Hopefully, this
time my request does not get ignored.

Best regards

Ole (co-author of the standard)

On 17.07.19 16:24, Laurent Michel wrote:
> Dear DMers ,
> 
> The WD period is over and it is time to move on.
> The development process of this standard is a long trip and I would like
> to thank all of the contributors, the whole WG as well as the TCG for
> this achievement.
> There were lots of change requests which have all been taken into
> account by M. Servillat, the document editor.
> All of these requests are listed below with the editor answers.
> We need now a couple of days to arrange the PR2 page and to publish all
> that material on ivoadoc.
> You will be notified when the PR stage will start.
> 
> Best
> 
> LM
> 
> Editor Answers [...]