issues tracking for XG final report

I had a couple issues from the last telecon to look into the W3C  
Tracker tool and to report back at the next telecon.  This is a  
summary of what I found and my follow-on actions.

Tracker (http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/) looks like an  
exceptional tool but I think it is a bit late in our work to put in  
the effort to completely understand and make use of it.  If this was  
the start of the XG, I would probably suggest making it part of our  
workflow.

In other efforts to which I contribute, we track issues in an Excel  
spreadsheet.  Anyone with an issue enters it into a submission  
template and sends it to the team tracking all the issues.  This does  
a good job of making sure issues are not lost and the resolution  
process can be tracked.

Given we are using the wiki, I suggest we use that as our issue  
tracking tool instead of a spreadsheet.  As a step in this direction,  
I added a Submitted issues and resolution status link (http:// 
www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/wiki/ReportIssues) under the the Draft  
Final Report section of the wiki Front Page.  The issues page shows a  
table with one sample issue and the Resolution Actions column  
contains a link to a sample page showing the capture of the  
resolution process.

I propose we use this as our tracking tool to capture ideas and  
concerns while the text is still in the wiki but for situations where  
you may feel it is not best to edit the wiki directly.  After the  
editing team moves the content to HTML, the Issues Table would be the  
official means to enter and track issues against the Final Report.

I will include this as an agenda item for our call next Wednesday.   
However, I wanted people to have a look at this prior to the meeting.

If you have any immediate comments or suggestions, feel free to send  
them my way.  I'll incorporate what I can prior to Wednesday.

Ken

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Ken Laskey
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