[DDI-SRG] Timing of Schema vote

[Wendy Thomas]

Mary,

Arofan is just finishing up the last updates to the schemas. Unfortunately 
he had to fly to Europe yesterday so I'm hoping to get this later today. 
Achim will need to create the html field level documents and I'm working 
on the drafts. I'd say realistically we are talking Wednesday earliest. 
This is a slight delay over the scheduled plan but still allows voting 
before IASSIST.

It will be version 3.1

Our versioning system is as follows:  X.Y.Z

Main number change (X) occurs when new functionality is added
Change in Y occurs when there are backward incompatable changes which may 
or may not effect a user depending on which element subsets they use
Change in Z reflects backward compatable changes only

Wendy


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Mary Vardigan wrote:

> Hi, Wendy. Since I am in Mannheim this week, Achim and I talked about this a bit. Is your timing still roughly the same? And will this be 3.01, 3.1, or neither?
>
> Mary
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> Von: Wendy Thomas [mailto:wlt at pop.umn.edu]
> Gesendet: Do 19.03.2009 14:45
> An: Mary Vardigan
> Cc: TIC list
> Betreff: Timing of Schema vote
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>
> Mary,
>
> I believe our original time line had us getting the revised schemas out
> for review by the end of the first full week of April so that Expert
> Committee members would have 2 weeks to review and then a week to vote
> before the end of April. We have now gotten through all of the existing
> bugs but have run into a bit of a scheduling problem terms of getting the
> updated schemas and field level documentation updated along with
> preliminary updates to the higher level metadata.
>
> We would like to extend the deliver date to April 19th. This moves the
> review to the last two weeks of April and a vote during the first week of
> May. Essentially this only moves it back one week from original plan so we
> are hoping it will not be a problem.
>
> Please note that we would once again put out the vote as a vote of
> approval on the schemas to include agreed changes that arose during review
> (typographical corrections, documentation improvement, etc.). For example
> Parts I and II may only be in draft form during the review period.
>
> On a related note, I will be creating an updated verion of DDI 3.0 Part I
> and II to reflect comments received during workshops and best practice
> development. This version will continue to be supported through improved
> documentation and the Best Practice publications developed at Dagstuhl.
>
> Please let us know if this scheduling change causes major problems. Our
> primary concern is that due to other committements we won't get a chance
> to work on the schemas until April 5 and we need two weeks to make sure we
> are accurate in the updates.
>
>
> Wendy
>
> Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
> Data Access Core Director                Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
> Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
> University of Minnesota
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>
>

Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455