Infrastructure

Updating schemas is a fragile, ad-hoc process. To get it right, one has to ensure all of the tags in the xsd are described correctly in the documentation, and reflected in the dataone-service-api service types (Java classes). these classes are not directly created, but generated using binding.xml files. Finally, the schemas themselves need to be properly versioned (svn tagged). All members of the core development team should be able to readily make necessary changes, but the complexity for making the changes correctly is high.

A procedure is needed to make this process repeatable and less frustrating, and error-prone.