[DDI-SRG] DDI Schema development version

[Wendy Thomas]

We will put this on tomorrow's agenda but the discussion may carry over to 
the following week when Achim will be available. However, we should be 
able to determine the format of the version number on Thursday.

Wendy

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Pascal Heus wrote:

> All:
> Regarding the next version of the DDI schema, do we know what will be
> the version number / namespace? 3.1 or 3.01? Do we have a formal rule
> for minor releases?
>
> I have a request concerning the availability of the future schema files
> in the SourceForge CVS. Could we maintain this as a "development "
> version that gets updated whenever we have a bug fix resolution? This is
> important some of the development projects I'm working on as won't be
> able to implement some features based on the current schema. I would
> therefore prefer or already develop against the bug fixed version in the
> new namespaces. This is with the understanding of course that there is
> no guarantee that schema updates won't change again before official
> publication.The missing @isPublished attribute for example is a serious
> problem for me. Other implementers may be interested in this option as
> well.
>
> best
> *P
>
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