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JSR358-6: Member vs. Member Representative confusion #5

Closed apastsya closed 7 years ago

apastsya commented 13 years ago

Jira issue originally created by user shannon:

An Expert can be either a Member (company) or Member Representative (person).

A Spec Lead is an Expert.

A Spec Lead Member is an individual JCP member (Member?), or the company that employs the Spec Lead.

It seems weird that an Expert can be a company or a person and thus that a Spec Lead can be a company or a person, and then we need Spec Lead Member to refer to one of the cases.

Wouldn't it be simpler for Expert and Spec Lead to always be a person, and then have Spec Lead Member (and Expert Member, if needed), to cover the cases where you need to refer to the company?

Or, define Expert Representative and Spec Lead Representative to parallel Member Representative.

Depends on whether most uses of (e.g.) Spec Lead intend to refer to the person or the company.

It seems weird for Expert to be a company since part of the definition is "has expert knowledge" and "an active practitioner in the technology". Can a company do either of those?

apastsya commented 13 years ago
apastsya commented 13 years ago

Comment created by pcurran:

You're probably right (my head is spinning) but remember that we're inheriting definitions from the JSPA and we must be careful not to re-define or contradict.

Please either suggest specific changes, or agree that we can defer this until later :)

apastsya commented 13 years ago

Comment created by pcurran:

Risk of making fundamental changes at this stage is too great.

Agreed at September 29 WG meeting that we will defer this.

apastsya commented 9 years ago

Comment created by pcurran:

This has been fixed in the version of the Process Document being developed through JSR 364.

apastsya commented 9 years ago

Issue was closed with resolution "Fixed"