1. Purpose
The Quarterly Errata & Submission Summary is the public record of confirmed errata patches and contribution-submission activity for each quarter. It is the operational expression of the transparency commitment in the CIAO Constitution Section 3 (Foundational Commitments — Commitment of Transparency) and the cadence commitment in the Change Management & Versioning Process Section 10 and the Editorial Submission Framework Section 8.
The Summary is published quarterly, in the first month following the quarter it covers, and is appended to this page. Prior quarters’ summaries are preserved indefinitely in the page’s Quarterly Issues section.
2. What this Summary covers
Each quarterly issue covers two operational streams:
Errata. The list of confirmed errata patches in the preceding quarter — broken cross-references repaired, factual corrections, typographical faults that changed meaning, stale source-standard references updated. Each entry names the affected document, the nature of the patch, the patch version, and the date the patch was published.
Submissions. The aggregate state of the contribution pipeline through the Editorial Submission Framework — total submissions received, breakdown by tier and category, count of submissions accepted into the pipeline, count returned out of scope, count promoted to Material or Structural pathway, count completed through to publication. Member-organisation granularity is preserved within Secretariat audit trail only and is not published in the Summary.
Each Summary entry is two paragraphs of plain-language commentary plus the quantitative tables appropriate to the quarter.
3. Quarterly Issues
Q2 2026 — Inaugural Issue
The inaugural Q2 2026 issue is published as a standing reference rather than a closed report. It is updated as the quarter progresses and is closed at the start of July 2026 with the final figures locked into version history. Subsequent quarterly issues — Q3 2026 onwards — follow the standard publication cadence: closed at quarter-end, published in the first week of the following month.
4. Methodology Notes
Errata counts are based on confirmed errata patches as recorded in version history. Reports that were investigated and not confirmed (the report was reviewed and the published material was found to be correct as published) are not counted as errata.
Submission counts are based on submissions through the Practitioner Submission channel and the Practitioner Direct channel as set out in the Editorial Submission Framework. Public Comment channel volumes are reported separately within the Summary where the Public Comment volume includes substantive observations the Secretariat investigated, distinguished from general enquiries.
Tier-level breakdowns name the contributor tier as recorded at submission time. Where a member’s tier changes between submission and publication of the Summary, the submission is recorded against the tier at submission time.
Part of the CIAO Standard administrative instruments — see Standard Administration for the canonical index of operational policies and processes.