Hi,
I agree with Harry - the major.minor.revision three-tier numeric
versioning is clearly needed for the schema files and the other
machine-readable artifacts that are required for PSI operation.
Date is not an acceptable form for the over-the-wire detailed
versioning of a protocol - and the two are the same thing for
PSI.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
PS - I'm happy to have date in the filename for working-drafts
and/or PWG 'standards track' documents.
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:18 PM
To: Gail Songer
Cc: PWG (E-mail)
Subject: RE: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
A point that (I think) Ira and Tom were trying to make is that "from the
outside looking in" major (and minor) version numbers such as v1.0 and v1.1
have "meaning". Since we are so close to the standards development
process... any rolling counter will do for us (date or
major.minor.revision).
Also we need to have a format that makes sense for PSI and (potentially)
automatic reference and retrieval of schema, XML documents etc.
I guess I'm casting my preference toward v1.x.x. with clear-cut rules as to
where to start and end the sequence as we somewhat articulated on the call
yesterday.
----------------------------------------------
Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
----------------------------------------------
"Gail Songer" <gsonger at peerless.com>
Sent by: owner-pwg at pwg.org
01/31/2003 01:22 PM
To: "PWG (E-mail)" <pwg at pwg.org>
cc:
Subject: RE: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
I prefer identifying documents by date rather than by version number.
For IPPFax, it was sometime into the process when we decided what “version”
to use. (Should we make this the first version 1.0 or align our version
with the version of IPP we were going to require V1.0) There also seems to
be some discussion on the version of IPP for the Document object….
Gail
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:03 PM
To: Hastings, Tom N
Cc: Farrell, Lee; PWG (E-mail)
Subject: RE: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
I propose we draft a working draft of a proposal for drafting draft
standards proposals. Oh.. that's right.. we did that once...
Seriously... can we move off the topic of how the brain and tongue work
together and focus on what appeared to be the issues with substance from
yesterday's call?
1. 3 tier or 2 tier. We had a 3 step process but I'm willing to reduce this
to 2 steps based on our experience
- We used to call our 3 step process Proposed, Draft and Standard
- We can call our 2 step process anything but I think Proposed and Standard
were the most vocal (Draft and Standard does fit better in my brain... but
then there is this endless debate.. anyone got a coin)?
2. Versioning
- <major>.<minor>.<revision>
- date coded
We have documents in or nearing last call which really depend on closure.
----------------------------------------------
Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
----------------------------------------------
"Hastings, Tom N" <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>
Sent by: owner-pwg at pwg.org
01/31/2003 12:35 PM
To: "Farrell, Lee" <Lee.Farrell at cda.canon.com>
cc: "PWG (E-mail)" <pwg at pwg.org>
Subject: RE: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
Lee and Bill,
The problem is what do you call successive versions of the Draft Standard,
before you are ready to send it out for Last Call?
Working Drafts of the Draft Standard?
Using "Draft" in two different senses in the same sentence to identify a
document is pretty confusing. And we know that people in normal conversion
like to drop the adjectives and just talk about the "Draft". So which do
they mean when they say the "Draft is ...".
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Farrell, Lee [mailto:Lee.Farrell at cda.canon.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 18:33
To: PWG (E-mail)
Subject: RE: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
Duh.
[If people can understand "jumbo shrimp" without losing sleep, I don't see
why "draft standard" would cause a problem.]
lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 6:05 PM
To: Hastings, Tom N
Cc: pwg at pwg.org
Subject: Re: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
Er... Um... so why is it so hard to put the definition to use and realize
that a "Draft Standard" is a preliminary version of a "Standard"?
----------------------------------------------
Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
----------------------------------------------
"Hastings, Tom N" <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>
Sent by: owner-pwg at pwg.org
01/30/2003 04:24 PM
To: pwg at pwg.org
cc:
Subject: PWG> "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron
Here is why I think that "Draft Standard" is an oxymoron. Draft is too
fleeting. Standard is meant to be more stable.
So I looked up the word "Draft" in the dictionary. Webster's Seventh
Collegiate Dictionary says:
"a preliminary sketch, outline, or version".
We all use the word "draft" (or "working draft") to mean the document that
we update rapidly to get to a version that we all consider stable enough to
have a Last Call.
So one of the appealing suggestions made at today's call was to just remove
section 3.4 Draft Standard and have only 3.4 Proposed Standard and 3.6
Standard. Both have to have a series of drafts to be reviewed to lead up to
being an approved Proposed Standard or an approved Standard. And both need
to have a draft that is considered good enough to both trying a Last Call
and then the Last Call has to actually pass.
I think much of our trouble is terminology, so fixing the terminology, and
deleting a step seems to be a good thing to do and is NOT abandoning the
process or overturning turnips.
Tom