At 12:58 22/06/2005, Tom Petch wrote:
For me, this list of items misses the point of having a chair, which IMO is to
focus the discussion, the work, on the tasks in hand, so that they get
done in a
timely fashion.
A chair should start from the Charter and make sure it is well and
consensuall
--On 21. juni 2005 12:16 -0400 John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if a WG chair has posted nothing to the WG mailing list for a week, and
that WG chair has not told the WG he's on holiday, that WG chair is
probably not doing his/her job.
Much though I remain a staunch fan of Harald, I
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From: "John Loughney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: what is a wg chair's job was: Simplistic metrics Re: WG management
> Harald,
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and discussing
things frequently, even chair reviews by the IESGs (say once a year) and
maybe even joint wg status reviews.
John L.
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Subject: Simplistic metrics Re: WG management
Author: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Let me offer a simplistic metric.
>
> if a WG chair has posted nothing to the WG mailing list for a week, and
> that WG chair has not told the WG he's on holiday, that WG chair is
> probably not doing his/her job.
Much though I rema
Hi,
I agree with Joel. Though, the metric is simple (and in that regard
possibly good to track) I believe it measures the wrong thing. I think
that if the WG does work and there is no need for drawing conclusions on
the WG mailing list, or the WG chair has chosen not to contribute
technically - po
Actually, based on experience in effective and ineffective working groups,
I don't think the 1 week (or even two weeks) suggested below is a
reasonable measure of activity.
When I was a WG chair, there were often multi-week periods when I did not
post anything to the list. Sometimes this was
--On 20. juni 2005 07:39 -0500 Spencer Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Two related problems here, as you pointed out in another posting - when
the WG is only active for six weeks per year, and when the WG chair is
only active for nine weeks per year. I don't see how we can focus on this
w
