WG Tools Project Review
January 6 2005
Goals of this review
- remind what tools are available to help manage WGs
- discover tools that have been developed in individual WGs and see whether there is an interest in generalizing them
- see what tools are missing, and how to prioritize their development
Productivity tools
End goal is to help identify tools that
- reduce administrative tasks for Staff Contacts
- would be missing for Incubators - without Staff contacts
Expected feedback
Focus on
- existing tools used in W3C not listed in the presentation
- small improvements to existing tools that would save a lot of time
- tools developed outside of W3C that could be re-used
- W3C-specific tools that are really needed now
Expected outcome
- feedback for priorities in Systeam and possibly QA Team
- ideas for a session on tools during Tech Plenary?
Before proceeding
- q+ for clarification questions
- agenda+ for discussion items
- most of this review should be discussion rather than presentation
Working Groups life stages:
- creation
- start
- regular meetings
- consensus-based decisions
- publications and transition requests
- tracking feedback
- tracking implementations
detailed list of tools
A few highlights
- WG Participation management
- publication tools
- tracking issues
- test-related tools
WG Participation management
- DBWG
- IPP
- announcing alpha release of MMS (Stephane)
Publication tools
Tracking issues and comments
See wiki page on the topic
- no completely satisfactory solutions today
- good reports on Bugzilla and ExIT
- issues and feedback tracking: correlated but different
Testing Tools
- no widespread tools today
- problematic in some groups (e.g. Voice?)
- some interesting ad-hoc tools (RDF based, WBS based)
Possible Agenda Items
(if none else proposed)
- innovative way to use our existing tools? e.g. WBS? CVS?
- Tools developed for a particular group: Dean@CDF? Yves@WS?
- new collaboration tools and their current usage: Wiki? Blogs?
- use cases for small-scale calendaring applications