[OSGeo-Standards] Improving public comment period

[Andrea Aime]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Raj Singh <rsingh at opengeospatial.org>wrote:

> Note I've broken this discussion off into a new thread. I've been thinking
> a bit more about improving the public comment period. I think that the
> process could be improved if the public could comment before the
> specification is fully written. At that point, it's human nature that
> editors will resist major changes that make them do a lot of new writing,
> even if they like the suggestions. It's also harder to suggest significant
> changes to a fully developed specification.
>

Fully agree, the way the process is setup allows for minor issues to be
amended, but won't allow to merge any significant feedback
that might require reconsidering some design point in the specification.


>
> Could this group think about additional, earlier milestones that would be
> useful for public comment? Perhaps thinks like conceptual models,
> request/response patterns, or mandatory use cases to satisfy? I'll also
> bring up a germ of an idea I've been mulling for years, which is developing
> some sort of heuristic (questions, flowchart, tests, etc.) to rate a
> specification's level of implementation complexity.
>

Class diagrams/xml schemas drafts, sample requests and sample intended
workflows as well as the split between core and optional behavior are
all good ways to show where a specification is going and get feedback.

About the complexity I don't have an answer in terms of automated tools,
but you have the human equivalent on this mailing list
with people that are used to implement OGC standards and tried first hand
how decisions made it easier/more difficult to
implement a spec

Cheers
Andrea

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