[sv-bc] Notes from the editor regarding P1800/D5

All,

 

P1800/D5 contains the following changes:

 

-          98 SV-BC Mantis items 

-          52 SV-EC Mantis items

-          15 V-1364 Mantis items

-          Uncounted hundreds of editorial corrections (cross references,
spelling, grammar, punctuation, IEEE wording requirements, etc.)

 

All changes between draft 4 and draft 5 are marked with change bars in the
left margin, and are in either blue text, or red strike-through text.
Changes that are the result of Mantis items have the Mantis number in the
right margin.   For convenience in tracking changes, all Mantis items
corrections that had been made in previous versions are in green text.  All
wording added by the editor during the merge of 1364-2005 and 1800-2005 is
in purple text.  These changes that were made in previous drafts do not have
change bars.  Only changes made for draft 5 have change bars.

 

Sorting the Mantis data base for items with a "status" of "completed" will
give a list of all Mantis items that committees need to verify were
correctly incorporated into the LRM.   You should be able to just search for
the Mantis number when reviewing to see if the items were implemented
correctly.  After reviewing the changes, the Mantis item status needs to be
changed to "closed" if the corrections were implemented correctly, or
"editor" if not correct.  If not correct, a note should be added as to what
corrections are required.  Note that the list of completed items that need
review is more than the total of changes listed above.  This is because many
items that were corrected in draft 4 were never reviewed and closed.  

 

The current schedule calls for draft 6 to be released 4 weeks from now, May
28th.  Draft 6 will incorporate approved mantis items from the SV-AC and
SV-CC committees.  This schedule means that SV-BC and SV-EC committees
should give high priority to reviewing the changes in draft 5, in order to
have any editorial corrections to those changes show up in draft  6 (draft 7
won't come out until this fall, and will be the pre-ballot review draft).

 

Finally, there are a number of editor questions in the margins (search for
"Question").  I would very much like to have all those questions answered
and the boxes deleted in draft 6!  The BC committee is currently looking at
the questions in the clauses that fall under its domain.  The EC, AC, and CC
committees need to do the same.

 

Stu
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Stuart Sutherland
stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
+1-503-692-0898


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