Thanks for starting this debate: a useful corollary to the decision to go 
GitHub. I propose that “CD Editor” becomes plural, and we start having a team. 
I have no immediate intention of stepping down, but Michael’s Post has made me 
realise how ad hominem the current system is. Presumably the editors should 
essentially (I.e. apart from sysadmins) be those with push rights to this 
repository.

A change log would be necessary. I wonder (no real views either way - what do 
those with experience of larger/longer lasting projects think) whether a simple 
text (probably actually HTML) file will suffice.

James

Sent from my iPhone

On 29 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Michael Kohlhase 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


Dear all,

as you know, we have been reorganizing the OpenMath resources and web site as 
multiple repositories at [1]

In particular we have the new CDs repository [2], which has the CD resources 
and feeds the CD web site [3]

The idea is that [2] should facilitate CD development by providing public 
source access, issues, pull requests, and notifications. Now, the first outside 
user (Jacob Beal) has taken advantage of this first by raising an issue [4], 
and then providing a pull request [5] which is currently being discussed. In a 
nutshell the proposal is to add negated binary connectives nor, nand, and nxor 
to logic1.ocd.

So far so good, but this raises the question of how the CD approval process 
should be organized (technically).

The OpenMath Standard [6] only says

> 4.5 Content Dictionaries Reviewing Process

> The OpenMath Society is responsible for implementing a review and referee
> process to assess the accuracy of the mathematical content of Content 
> Dictionaries.
> The status (see CDStatus) and/or the version number (see CDVersion ) of a 
> Content |
> Dictionary may change as a result of this review process.

which leaves the process open and the OpenMath Society delegates the 
responsibility to its CD Editor (James Davenport).

James and I have started discussing the technical process of approving CD 
revisions. We propose that we make the GitHub-supported process we have started 
with Jacob's proposal the standard and document it in the README of  [2].

Here is what we think the process should be.

  1.  An extension proposal is made via a GitHub issue at [2] and discussed 
there.
  2.  The discussion is concretized into a pull request (PR) to [2] that is 
discussed further on the PR (including inline comments) until all issues are 
resolved.
  3.  James explicitly approves the PR and someone with push rights merges it.
  4.  the changes are announced and added to a changelog.

We would like your input on this proposal (in particular what we should do for 
4.)

James & Michael


[1] https://github.com/OpenMath

[2] https://github.com/OpenMath/CDs

[3] http://openmath.org/cd/

[4] https://github.com/OpenMath/CDs/issues/32

[5] https://github.com/OpenMath/CDs/pull/34

[6] http://www.openmath.org/standard/om20-2017-07-22/omstd20.html#cdapprove

[7]

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