OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2008-02-11

OpenDocument TC coordination call  draft
minutes 2008-02-11

Call to order at 10:06am

* Rollcall

Robert Weir, IBM (presiding)

Eike Rathke, Sun Microsystems

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun Microsystems

Helen Yue, IBM

Bob Jolliffe, South Africa Dept. of
Science & Technology

David Wheeler

Patrick Durusau

* 6/10 voting members present, so quorum
requirements have been met.

* Minutes from 2008-02-04 coordination call:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200802/msg00009.html

Two amendments to minutes:

- corrected date in minutes, subject
said "2008-01-21" but actually these were minutes for "2008-02-04"

- "The TC anonymously agreed"
-> "The TC unanimously agreed"

The attending TC members unanimously
accepted the minutes, with the above two amendments.  Rob will post
approved minutes.

* Agenda approved

* Action Items

- (Not completed) Work continues on defining the default values.  Ma
Yue is working on collecting values from Lotus Symphony.  -- Rob and
Helen to follow up with Ma.

* Proposals, as listed at

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument_v1.2_Action_Items#head-d117ebdb1531adf3aa1dbb5fb619a2298f88ac0e

* Other discussions

- Rob outlined the "ODF 1.2 Roadmap":

-Once we complete our editing work on
ODF 1.2, it undergoes an approval process like this:

Approval as a Committee Draft

Public Review - 60 days

Disposition of comments - 2
weeks

Second public review - 15 days
(2nd public review period is only required if we needed to make substantial
changes in response to comments)

Ballot for Committee Specification
-- 15 days

OASIS ballot - 60 days (including
ballot prep time overhead)

We should plan on an exemplary review
of ODF 1.2, and this may require 2 or more cycles of public review, so
a conservative estimate is that an OASIS Standard could issue approximately
5 months after the TC's main work is complete.

Once approved by OASIS we can submit
ODF 1.2 to JTC1 for approval as a PAS submission.  This would result
in a 6-month ballot, with possible BRM at the end, so likely a 9-10 month
overall process in addition to the OASIS process.

Once the TC has completed the text of
ODF 1.2, the approval process in OASIS and ISO is rather predictable --
they have firm schedule requirements.  But predicting the completion
of the ODF 1.2 technical work is harder.

A rough road map would be as follows:

ODF 1.2 technical drafting complete
May 2008

ODF 1.2 public review June-July 2008

ODF 1.2 approved as OASIS Standard -
Sept 2008

ODF 1.2 approved as an ISO standard
- Summer 2009