{"id":600,"date":"2010-01-25T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=600"},"modified":"2010-02-06T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:20:28","slug":"odf-1-2-part-1-public-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/odf-1-2-part-1-public-review.html","title":{"rendered":"ODF 1.2 Part 1 Public Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rcweir\/4306659472\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4049\/4306659472_6f852ede31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salt and Fresh-ground Pepper (photo by author)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC today.\u00a0 The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 Part 1 was <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.oasis-open.org\/archives\/office\/201001\/msg00255.html\">sent out for a 60-day public review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does this mean, and why should I care?&#8221; you might be asking.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a fair question.<\/p>\n<p>First, a quick review of the OASIS standards approval process.\u00a0 The stages look like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>TC creates one or more Working Drafts<\/li>\n<li>A Working Draft may then additionally be approved as a Committee Draft<\/li>\n<li>A Committee Draft may then be additionally approved as a Public Review Draft<\/li>\n<li>After addressing received public comments, a Committee Draft may be approved as a Committee Specification<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a Committee Specification may be voted on by OASIS as an OASIS Standard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is the possibility of iteration at most of these stages.\u00a0 So we&#8217;re not done with ODF 1.2.\u00a0\u00a0 There is still work to be done, but we are certainly in the endgame now.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is important to remember that ODF 1.2 has been factored into three &#8220;parts&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Part 1 specifies the core schema<\/li>\n<li>Part 2 is OpenFormula (spreadsheet formulas)<\/li>\n<li>Part 3 defines the packaging model of ODF, and went out for public review <a href=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/2009\/11\/odf-12-part-3-goes-out-for-public.html\">back in November<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part 1 is by far the largest of the 3 parts, at 838 pages.\u00a0 Here is a high-level view of what is covered:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Scope<\/li>\n<li>Document Structure<\/li>\n<li>Metadata<\/li>\n<li>Text Content<\/li>\n<li>Paragraph Elements Content<\/li>\n<li>Text Fields<\/li>\n<li>Text Indexes<\/li>\n<li>Tables<\/li>\n<li>Graphic Content<\/li>\n<li>Chart Content<\/li>\n<li>Database Front-end Document Content<\/li>\n<li>Form Content<\/li>\n<li>Common Content<\/li>\n<li>SMIL Animations<\/li>\n<li>Styles<\/li>\n<li>Formatting Elements<\/li>\n<li>Datatypes<\/li>\n<li>General Attributes<\/li>\n<li>Formatting Attributes<\/li>\n<li>Document Processing<\/li>\n<li>Conformance<\/li>\n<li>Appendix A.\u00a0 OpenDocument Relax NG Schema<\/li>\n<li>Appendix B.\u00a0 OpenDocument Metadata Manifest Ontology<\/li>\n<li>Appendix C.\u00a0 MIME Types and File Name Extensions (Non Normative)<\/li>\n<li>Appendix E.\u00a0 Recommend Usage of SMIL<\/li>\n<li>Appendix G.\u00a0 Acknowledgments (Non Normative)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If any of this interests you I&#8217;d encourage you to take a look at the draft and submit comments per the process defined in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.oasis-open.org\/archives\/office\/201001\/msg00255.html\">public review announcement<\/a>.\u00a0 I expect few will review the entire specification, but even if you can review only a chapter of particular interest to you, or even do a random page review, that will help.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking for any reasonable feedback, from typographical errors, to ambiguities to new feature proposals.\u00a0 It is all good.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the incoming comments via the TC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.oasis-open.org\/archives\/office-comment\/\">comment list<\/a>, or unofficially via the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ODFJIRA\">ODFJIRA<\/a> Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know that a vigorous public review, with many reviewers and many comments, is seen in some quarters as inconvenient and troublesome.\u00a0 It is thought better (in those circles) for standards to sail by, unread, unchallenged and unimplemented.\u00a0 I do not subscribe to that view.\u00a0 I ask you to not be gentle on the ODF 1.2 public review draft.\u00a0 Send us a lot of comments, so we know where we need to improve.\u00a0 Send us a lot of defect reports, so we know what to fix.\u00a0 Send us a lot of feature proposals, so we know what to do next.\u00a0 Short of joining the ODF TC directly, this is the best opportunity to give us feedback.<span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC today.\u00a0 The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 Part 1 was sent out for a 60-day public review. &#8220;What does this mean, and why should I care?&#8221; 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