I'd like to introduce an addition to the Workgroup Best Practices document [1] that provides an additional specification phase/status of "deprecated". The intent is to not leave certain specifications hanging in some convergence or finalizing status forever. We need to indicate that the piece of work is not being further developed and implementation expectations are set appropriately.
Proposal: "Deprecated: If there is a consensus within the workgroup that a non-finalized Specification should no longer be developed and implementations are not encouraged. It is recommended that the workgroup clearly mark this specification as such and indicate a possible way forward, if one exists. This can happen if the specification has not been kept current with OSLC Core specification guidelines, then such a Specification can left this state and not be further developed. Moving to this state can happen from any phase in the Specification lifecycle" I'd like to have feedback +/- on this proposal by April 18th (and discuss if needed at the Core WG meeting). [1] - http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcWorkgroupPrinciplesandBestPractices Thanks, Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645
