ESSENCE2 — Make the abilities in active voice

Issues

The following text is cumbersome and awkward, uses the passive voice, and uses the past tense.

• https://issues.omg.org/browse/ESSENCE2-2 - Passive Voice

Original Text

In the solution area of concern the team has to be able to capture and analyze the requirements, and build and operate a system that fulfills them. This requires the following competencies to be available to the team:

Suggestion

In the solution area of concern, the team needs to capture and analyze the requirements and build and operate a system that fulfills them. This necessitates the following competencies being available to the team:

Close

Generic writing guidelines are not necessarily applicable to the writing of specification documents. Nor does the seeming violation of such guidelines necessarily mean that any specific text is unclear as already written. All text in the specification was reviewed and adopted as is with specific technical interpretation. Any changes to the text for purely stylistic reasons must therefore be done with extreme care, followed by a full review, to ensure that such changes do not alter the interpretation of the text as it was adopted. This would require a considerable level of effort for a possible minor gain in presentation, which itself is likely to be subjective. Therefore, the FTF has chosen not to make such changes to the text for purely stylistic reasons.