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what is a wg chair's job was: Simplistic metrics Re: WG management

2005-06-21 14:51:40
Harald,

Your mail prompted me to write a mail I have been contemplating (but I'm 
actually sending this via my phone, so I'm keeping this brief).

What is a wg chairs job? I can think of several tasks:
 1) cheerleader (go wg, go!)
 2) mediator (Mr. x, you need a time-out!)
 3) task manager (draft-foobar is 1.8 weeks late.)
 4) key contributor (I think the header field should be 2.1 bytes long.)
 5) big-picture type (the internet needs a protocols for signaling 
morality.)

With the above tasks, chairs can be active or more reactive, sometimes 
depending upon the situation. 

What I thinks is needed, however, is that the chair and the ad cooperate 
well and have a good understanding of how things are working.  I also think 
that while we can blame the IESG or the wg chair, but I think a key point 
we've often overlooked is the  ad-chair relationship.  If a chair knows 
what the ad reaction will be when sending a draft to the IESG, then this 
may help avoid the late suprise, Also, if an ad knows what is happening 
(roughly) in a wg, then they can help provide some insight into ho to get 
things unstuck.

I thinks this calls for the ads and chairs to be in touch and discussing 
things frequently, even chair reviews by the IESGs (say once a year) and 
maybe even joint wg status reviews. 

John L. 

  

_____ Original message _____
Subject:        Simplistic metrics Re: WG management
Author: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no>
Date:           21st June 2005 10:34:48  AM



--On 20. juni 2005 07:39 -0500 Spencer Dawkins 
<spencer(_at_)mcsr-labs(_dot_)org> 

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
with our current milestone tracking ("no, really, we'll finish that 
draft
by the NEXT meeting, this time for sure"), so your comments in the
"front-end delays" thread apply here as well.

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.

If NOBODY's posted to the WG mailing list for a week, it's time to close 

the WG.

                 
Harald





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