| Creating a Working Group |
Organizing a Workshop |
setting up a meeting registration with WBS |
mostly good |
| reviewing position papers with WBS |
ad-hoc |
| Getting the Working Group charter reviewed |
setting up a WG charter review questionnaire |
ready |
| Starting a Working Group |
Creating a Call for Participation |
setting up a group in IPP |
mostly ready |
| drafting the Call for Participation |
ready |
| Maintaining WG participants list |
using DBWG (can be synchronized with mailing list subscriptions) |
ready |
| automated for IPP groups |
ready |
| Creating a WG Web space |
news system (à la blog and Wiki) |
mostly ready (with Markup Guidelines) |
| using a standard layout |
low end (with Markup Guidelines) |
| setting ACLs per area |
ready |
| Organizing regular meetings |
Setting up meetings |
deciding day, time (teleconf), place (f2f) |
ad-hoc with WBS and the meeting planner |
| setting up a F2F meeting registration with WBS |
ready |
| informing W3C members of a F2F |
low-end (, generated iCalendar) |
| requesting a teleconference slot |
low-end (adminreq) |
| Managing meetings |
creating and announcing an agenda |
nothing |
| finding a scribe |
low-end (manually maintained list or Zakim) |
| publishing minutes with RRSAgent and scribe.perl (or with the related comma-tool) |
can be improved but already pretty good |
| recording issues, resolutions, action items with RRSAgent |
can be improved but already a basis |
| recording issues, resolutions, action items with trackbot |
very efficient |
| tracking good standing, minutes, etc. with MMS |
system in beta-release (unmaintained?) |
| Getting to consensus |
Tracking issues |
with Bugzilla |
can be improved but already a basis |
| with ExIT |
can be improved but already a basis (lacks a UI) |
| with trackbot & co |
simple but very efficient |
| and more |
ad-hoc |
| Organizing straw poll & votes |
setting up formal votes and straw polls with WBS |
ready |
| Publishing documents |
Getting write-access for Editors |
CVS access | ready |
| HTTP PUT | ready |
| WebDAV
|
being deployed |
| Making progresses on internal drafts |
gathering requirements and use cases |
nothing specific |
| annotating a document |
Annotea but rarely used |
| cross-referencing spec and issues |
ExIT annotations |
| using editing templates |
,new ? |
| maintaining a list of test assertions |
nothing specific |
| Getting document ready to publish |
XMLSpec |
mostly ready, but poor documentation |
| ReSpec | unobtrusive JavaScript spec editing tool |
| TR Bibliography generator |
mostly ready, but rarely used |
| TR "munger" (fix documents to make them pubrules-compliant) |
munge 0.1 (Bash script;
run postprocessor afterwards) |
| TR postprocessor
(ToC, bibliography, cross-refs, section numbers, alphabetic index,
etc.). |
Ready.
(Manuals 1
and 2 assume a CSS spec, but
tool works for any.) |
| Pubrules checker |
ready |
| Producing diffs between 2 versions of a draft |
tools available but not really deployed? |
| Producing PDF versions of the spec |
ad-hoc tools in WGs, but nothing deployed (see also Norman Walsh XSL FO) |
| TR References checker |
ready |
| IETF References checker |
ready |
| spell checker |
ready |
| Getting a document published |
finding a publication date (Webmaster, Comm Team)
|
nothing |
| Managing document transitions |
finding a date with Director, Comm, QA |
nothing |
| draft a director decision |
nothing |
| prepare a call for review (PR, PER) |
ready |
| Tracking and responding to feedback |
Setting a feedback system |
creating a specific mailing list |
ready, but harder to track |
| using bugzilla |
poor usability |
| Tracking feedback |
using bugzilla |
reliable, but somewhat costly |
| using cwm, XSLT, e.g. DanC's RDF based system |
very ad-hoc, but efficient |
| through issues tracking (e.g. in ExIT) |
not always appropriate |
| using Dom's LC Comment Tracker |
manual comment entry, annotated spec, DoC |
| Generating a disposition of comments |
from bugzilla with XSLT
|
limited to bugzilla tracking |
| Using ExIT's director view
|
limited to Exit tracking |
| using Dom's LC Comment Tracker |
manual comment entry, annotated spec, DoC |
| Managing patent disclosures |
with WBS |
ready |
| IPP |
ready (but limited to groups under PP) |
| Managing implementation reports |
Managing test cases |
XML DTD, XML Schema, RDF Schema |
ad-hoc, no standard |
| CVS |
no or little metadata management |
| using bugzilla |
not yet tried? |
| proprietary systems in Voice & co |
not widely available |
| packaging test suites |
nothing specific |
| Managing test results |
gathering results using RDF and the Web (e.g. with the OWL Test Suite) |
ad-hoc, but powerful |
| gathering results using WBS (e.g. XKMS Test Suite) |
ad-hoc, still experimental |
| Generating Implementation Reports |
? |
nothing specific |