FHIR Ballot Process Review

Instructions

3/9/2015 - Wiki based review of the draft FHIR Ballot Process

• This wiki based review of the draft FHIR Ballot Process is sponsored by the TSC as well as the following groups: FMG, FGB, EST and Publishing.
• The comments submitted during this review will be reviewed and acted on by FMG. The TSC will have final approval of the proposed process.
• The wiki review is one of the steps identified in the TSC's process for adoption of new process document found here: http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/procedures/IntroducingNewProcessesToHL7.zip
• The comment period is open from 3/9/2014 through EOD 3/20/2015.
• The draft FHIR Ballot Process is here: FHIR Ballot Process
• During the comment period, please submit your comments below including at least your name, item, existing wording, proposed wording, and comment. Thank you.

Comments

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• Ioana Singureanu: We need to create a very specific type of tracker (regarding metadata) that ensures we have all the metadata required by ANSI/balloting. The current FHIR "Issues" tracker is not quite sufficient because it does not support the information in the ballot spreadsheet.
• Ioana Singureanu: We could create one tracker per product, one per release, one per ballot. What are the the pros and cons of each?
• Ioana Singureanu: We could also use a tracker for "to do" items instead of a "todo.txt" file: http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2Ftodo.txt&view=log
• Brett Marquard: Is it possible to add custom metadata field to group comments? For example, the 'comment grouping' column in the existing spreadsheet is very helpful for categorizing comments and planned discussion dates.
• Brett Marquard: Is it possible to export proposed dispositions for block vote?
• Brett Marquard: Is it possible to record votes in gForge? Meeting meetings are an important backup.
• Brett Marquard: Will there be a way to assign vote counts to multiple comments at once?
• Brett Marquard: Is there a way to state comments are related to a specific project and resource?
• Paul Knapp: This should be tested for accuracy of import and export of ballot spreadsheets.
• Paul Knapp: This should be load tested and perhaps the import process can serve as that load test to identify if we may have load issues during actual use at the May WGM.
• Grahame: agree with Ioana. We need to create the right fields and enforce their use correctly. I believe that we need: ballot id, commenters id (can be hidden), disposition, (agreed change = disposition comment), committee that made the disposition, date vote, vote details (text field for mover/seconder/counts). Also we need an outcome for withdrawn
• Grahame - observationally, committees struggle with the difference between the task disposition and the ballot disposition. I'd rather collapse these to a single list
• Grahame - the "reason" field is useless, we should get rid of it