I'm in the same position as Lars: random teaching commitments

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On 7 Oct 2013, at 10:35, Lars Hellström <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Kohlhase skrev 2013-10-01 09.04:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> the summer is over, and the dust of the new semester (for me) has somewhat
>> settled, so we should get on with our mandate to look at extension of OM2,
>> possibly with a view towards an OpenMath 3 standard. I have attached JHD's
>> meeting minutes; here are the relevant parts, with my comments inline
>> 
>> > MK listed some change suggestions.
>> > 1. Better rˆole system (MK/FR)
>> > 2. n-ary binders (see Hellstr ̈om’s second presentation)
>> > 3. first-class sequences (Horozal/Kohlhase)
>> > 4. first-class records (Kohlhase)
>> > 5. flexForm CDs
>> > 6. Notation Definitions
>> > 7. DefMPs
>> > 8. Document/develop CD writing tools (see Hellstr ̈om’s first presentation)
>> > 9. Recognise Content MathML as an encoding.
>> > 10. Bug reports
>> 
>> Some of these issues are already raised (and discussed in the TRAC at
>> http://trac.mathweb.org/OM3 I propose to just adopt the TRAC as an open
>> resource for discussion and planning.
> 
> This seems natural. (Pity though that it, as I recall things, was said at the 
> meeting that a *new* tracker would be set up for the new enhancement process; 
> waiting for that to happen was a major reason for me to bother people about 
> the infrastructure work. If it instead had been stated that the existing 
> tracker would be used, then I would probably have filed some issue during the 
> summer.)
> 
> Be warned, though, that TRAC is a somewhat heavyweight tracker system, where 
> the purposes of many bells and whistles (milestones, due dates, assignment, 
> etc.) are unclear to the beginner, especially in the context that we will be 
> using it. There should be some sort of an executive summary document for how 
> we will be using it in this enhancement process, that clarifies what is 
> important (and how it should be interpreted) and what does not.
> 
> Process-wise, I think there are three important categories for the issues:
> * Issues that need to be dealt with before MathML3 standardisation.
> * Issues that are OM2.0 errata/clarifications.
> * Issues that are new features (and would require a version number increment).
> I suspect these might qualify as "milestones", but I'm not completely sure 
> about that. There are also a bunch of old milestones in the TRAC which should 
> perhaps be retired (if possible), since they don't correspond much to the 
> present process and will therefore be confusing.
> 
>> Everyone interested is invited to make
>> an account at https://trac.mathweb.org/register/register and tell me the
>> account name (please no funny characters and blanks) and I will give you
>> permissions.
> 
> I believe I did that in a separate mail, yes?
> 
> [snip]
>> We should also have a kick-off skype meeting; would next week suit
>> (generally, I will set up a doodle).
> 
> Is a doodle forthcoming? For me, I suppose this week is about as good (or 
> bad) as any other: some hours I can't due to teaching, other hours I can.
> 
> Lars Hellström
> 
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