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Subject: Re: [office] OpenOffice extensions to ODF
Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de> wrote on 07/15/2010 03:13:37 PM: > > > Does this mean that allowing office:annotation will be considered toget fixed > for ODF 1.2? > The question was also asked earlier in the thread, whether we can add features. I think this is clearer if you consider the voting math. To get to a Committee Specification we require that 2/3 of voting TC members approve, with no more than 25% disapprove. Since we have ~15 voting members at any given time, this means that approval of 10 is required, and any 4 could block. This does not prevent the TC from adding additional features to the draft, but it does mean that there would need to be a very high level of consensus that such a change is necessary. And remember that we have a long list of member proposals, made last year, that we've already deferred to ODF-Next. So let's get ODF 1.2 out, so we can start on ODF-Next, where we will have much broader abilities to integrate new features. Perhaps it would also help if we committed to have a far faster cycle for the next version of ODF? I'd propose aiming for a 12-month or 18-month cycle. That way, the sting of not having a feature make it into ODF 1.2 is not so great, since we'll have another release only a year away. In any case, I'll likely vote against adding new features at this point unless there is something of extraordinary importance. -Rob
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