Greetings We all generate and consume communications on maintenance activities. I’ve put in my time manually processing these communications, converting time zones, adding entries to calendars, opening tickets, and – as with any manual process – introducing the occasional error along the way. Much of the time these notifications are carried in an email, the format of which varies from sender to sender. I’d love to have some conventions for the formatting of the information in these emails. Such conventions would make it simple to create tools that eliminate the more boring and error prone aspects of processing these emails.
I’m shepherding a BCOP effort to identify common forms of notification, their common content, and propose machine parsable templates for notifications. Operators may include completed instances of these templates in their notifications to aid in their digestion. Thanks to the work of Randy Neals, who first championed this idea, we have a couple subject matter experts from the community who have signed on to this effort. We’re looking for additional people to get involved, especially people with programming experience. Reach out to me if you’re interested. Erik
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