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Bug 1060 - Umbrella specification concept defined but not used
Summary: Umbrella specification concept defined but not used
Status: RESOLVED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: QA
Classification: Unclassified
Component: QASpec-GL (show other bugs)
Version: LC-2004-11-22
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karl Dubost
QA Contact: Karl Dubost
URL: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w...
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Reported: 2005-01-26 14:57 UTC by Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Modified: 2005-04-28 11:53 UTC (History)
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Description Dominique Hazael-Massieux 2005-01-26 14:57:43 UTC
Is the entire discussion of umbrella specifications really necessary?  
The word "umbrella" isn't used anywhere else in the document, and I'm 
not sure that the concept is mentioned elsewhere.  I think it's enough 
to have just the first two sentences "Specifications can be defined in 
one or several ....in a well defined manner," but delete the clause 
"denoted below as umbrella specifications" along with the figure and the 
paragraph explaining the figure. 

The idea of a composite document isn't rocket science, and doesn't 
deserve this much space - at least not unless it played a more prominent 
role later in the document.
Comment 1 Karl Dubost 2005-03-03 19:43:51 UTC
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2005Feb/0028.html

       KD will draft some new language on defining requirements for 
multi-specification documents [AI-20050214-5] and send it to the QA WG 
list.
Comment 2 Dominique Hazael-Massieux 2005-03-04 02:23:04 UTC
In addition, the WG agreed to remove the concept of umbrella specification from
SpecGL, and has moved it as a more advanced topic in Variability in Specifications.
Comment 3 Dominique Hazael-Massieux 2005-03-21 14:14:48 UTC
The notion of umbrella spec has been removed from SpecGL, moved to Varaibility
in Spec, and alluded to in the intro of SpecGL:

"A specification is a set of technical requirements hat aim at defining a
reliable interface for accomplishing a given task. Specifications can be defined
in one document or as a coherent set of several documents, and can import
requirements of other specifications with normative references."
Comment 4 Dominique Hazael-Massieux 2005-04-28 11:53:49 UTC
setting version to LC in case of future use