<div dir="ltr"><div>Well, lets try it out. Our intent is to reach DDI users, people familiar with DDI. But, hey, we're also experimenting with the process. As these are both more technical in nature so its probably a good opportunity cast a wider net.</div><div><br></div><div>Wendy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:27 AM Jared Lyle <<a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu">lyle@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">Hi Wendi,<div><br></div><div>Would you like me to tweet these out, as well? Might expand the discussion and reach.</div><div><br></div><div>Jared</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:23 AM Wendy Thomas <<a href="mailto:wlt@umn.edu" target="_blank">wlt@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Technical Committee (TC) needs to tap into your knowledge and experience working with DDI. </div><div><br></div><div>A number of issues came up in during the DDI4 Prototype review that we considered as being broader than this one product. Some are technical, some philosophical, some practical. The TC noted that we needed broader input into the discussion than was represented by our membership. So we are bring the discussion to you.</div><div><br></div><div>We will be trying a number of approaches, but to start out we have put two issues on GitHub to let you comment, add new issues, and basically, join the discussion wherever and whenever you wish. Each issue will have a description including the goals, background, and some of the related issues noted in TC. Each discussion will be linked back to an issue in our standard issue tracker to ensure they are brought back into the official tracking system. </div><div><br></div><div>The first two issues will be:<br>Use of "default values" in DDI (cross-version) <a href="https://github.com/ddialliance/DDI-TC-167-Discussion" target="_blank">https://github.com/ddialliance/DDI-TC-167-Discussion</a><br>XML style in DDI (cross-version) <a href="https://github.com/ddialliance/DDI-TC-162-Discussion" target="_blank">https://github.com/ddialliance/DDI-TC-162-Discussion</a></div><div><br></div><div>Join the discussion!</div><div><br></div><div>The Technical Committee<br clear="all"><br>-- <br></div><div class="gmail-m_6040613226149335503gmail-m_-4949033621000932445gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div>Wendy L. Thomas Phone: +1 612.624.4389</div><div>Data Access Core Director Fax: +1 612.626.8375</div><div>Minnesota Population Center Email: <a href="mailto:wlt@umn.edu" target="_blank">wlt@umn.edu</a></div><div>University of Minnesota</div><div>50 Willey Hall</div><div>225 19th Avenue South</div><div>Minneapolis, MN 55455</div></div></div></div>
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