[General] revisiting OSAF status rollup

[Pieter Hartsook]

Having the working groups report status updates in multiple places and
formats seems like a waste of resources, but I believe it is useful
communication channel to have a single location to be able to see a periodic
contemporaneous status summary of our collective efforts in order to track
our progress. In the past, the Status Update posts on the blog get a lot of
hits, so I would continue to extract a summary from the wiki status update
and make a blog post pointing back to the wiki page.

Maybe though, we don't need this higher-level summary weekly, perhaps
monthly (or even quarterly) would be sufficient. And we could continue to
post the individual status of each group in the list summaries for those
that just want to focus on a particular project.

Pieter

On 6/19/06, Katie Capps Parlante <capps at osafoundation.org> wrote:
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> For the last few months, we've been attempting to put together a weekly
> OSAF "status rollup" on the wiki:
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WeeklyStatus20060407
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> Pieter takes the highlights and makes a blog entry:
> http://wp.osafoundation.org/2006/04/17/osaf-status-overview-07-april-2006/
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> Lisa used to do this task, and last December asked if anyone found the
> status rollup useful. Several folks mentioned that they did:
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> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2005-December/004545.html
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> The status to be "rolled up" and summarized is tracked in weekly meeting
> notes for some teams:
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/CommunityMtg20060407
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AppsMeeting20060406
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/PlatformMtg20060404
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> As more decisions happen on the list and fewer in meetings, we've also
> started doing list summaries:
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-June/000963.html
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-June/004845.html
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> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-June/006138.html
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> Those of us responsible for updating the wiki status page haven't been
> keeping up with it regularly. Its not really clear to us that it is
> important to do so, given the move to doing more work on the lists. Its
> also not clear to us that anyone is reading the status wiki. We'd like
> to stop doing the wiki status rollups, and spend more energy on list
> discussions and summaries. One thing we can do is send out links to team
> meeting notes with highlights summarized to the appropriate lists.
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> We're going to go ahead and try this, and see how it works out. Comments
> welcome.
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> Cheers,
> Katie
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