[lsb-discuss] draft for SC22 liaison

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Thu Jul 26 18:56:24 UTC 2012


On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, keld at keldix.com wrote:

revisions noted -- revised matter in indented; commentary is 
inside []

> IA32, TM, AMD64, PPC32, PPC64, S390, and S2390X repspectively.
...........................................^^^^^^

[probably] 	S390X

> A revison 5.0 is is being developed with a quite changed structure.
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 	refactored, and thus, changed

> That work has not been lost
...............^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 	is and has at all times been publicly availbable in the
 	projects version control system

> , however it was also understood that there
> was kind of given a pass in not completely conforming to the ISO
> conventions as a first-time PAS submission, but that a future revision
> would require additional work to more fully conform, so it may be that
> the existing facilities to generate a specification for consumption by
> ISO would not be sufficient - advice on that issue would be needed.

[I would strike this entirely -- if there are objections as to 
the form of the certification about, let a person opposing 
such raise them]


> The LSB group has tried to maintain the policy of a "common standard"
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 	has maintained

> - to not intentionally diverge the standards wording between ISO
> and non-ISO. Issues that specifically related to the "ISO portion"
> of LSB continue to have flags in the LSB issue tracking system.
.........^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 	have at all relevant times

> The status is then that the ISO standard is seriously outdated
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 	may be

[LSB have not auditted, nor seen a 'diff' as to the degree of 
divergence -- the use of the adverb 'seriously' is plainly 
inappropriate]

> , and the
> PAS originator has lost its PAS status in ISO. 
................^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 	no longer has

-- Russ herrold


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