[CRISP-TEAM] Preparation for initial draft publish: Inputs before 16 Dec

[Alan Barrett]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Izumi Okutani wrote:
> Once we publish the initial draft, there are two possible 
> aproaches about setting deadline to the 1st draft .
>
> a. We don't define deadline for the 1st draft
>    To prepare the 2nd draft on 5th, we incorporate comments as much as
>    possible, and clarify, until which comments we managed to
>    incorporate. We collect final comments on 12th Jan.
>
> b. We set a deadline for 1st draft
>    (for example: 3 days before we publish 2nd draft, 2nd Jan)
>
> My personal preference is b.
> - to avoid confusion which comments were incorprated and which were not
> - make sure the community takes a serious look before we publish the
>   2nd draft. (and not wait until 12th Jan as announced deadline)

I'd be inclined to set a soft deadline, like "Comments received 
before 2 Jan 2015 will be considered for incorporation into the 
next draft, and comments received between 2 Jan 2015 and 5 Jan 
2015 might or might not be considered."

> Just as a recap, this is the timeline we agreed at the last 
> call, before publishing the initial draft.
>
> - 16th Dec: CRISP Team members input deadline
> - 17th Dec: Michael will reflect all the inputs in the draft proposal
> - 18th Dec: Publish the initial draft

--apb (Alan Barrett)