[Om3] CD-content-issues… a guideline?

[Lars Hellström]

Paul Libbrecht skrev 2014-05-20 10.14:
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> Hello OpenMathers,
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> I quickly scanned the minutes of the last meeting and it was agreed there that CD-content issues should be sorted out outside of the (OMOBJ/CD) language specification.

I think that concerned primarily tickets about the contents of _specific_ 
extant content dictionaries. E.g. 
http://www.openmath.org/cd/contrib/cd/logic1p.ocd is not even a valid 
content dictionary at the moment.

> I am not sure it would be completely independent.
> I think we are currently not supporting well the new contributors of CD

Agreed. (I'd like to think I'm doing some work on this, although that is 
separate from the OM3 committee work.)

> as they do not know what kind of community process they are to expect and often do just one of the many desirable actions they should do.

That's probably true as well.

> While the guidelines are not part of the standard, the aims of the guidelines could be.
> I'm thinking that the objective of a completely free exchange of CDs is important (hence expect some licenses),

The less one as author needs to worry about licences, the better.

> that requesting people to define their interoperability objectives is important,

Well, it is generally a good idea to put more in writing than the bare 
minimum. I'm not sure if interoperability is something that needs to be 
singled out, but that's not a matter that I have spend much time worrying about.

> that participating to an open debate among potential interoperability stakeholders is useful, …

Does that, among other things, imply that one should get responses when 
posting to OM mailing lists? ;-)

Lars Hellström