Re: ... deadlines

On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:05:11 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In the past have declined to grant extensions that are unbounded or
>> >> triggered by some other action, rather than for a fixed amount of
>> >> time.
>> >
>> > What is the deadline by which issues 30, 31, 41, 56, 66, 80, and 88
>> > will be decided by the chairs?
>>
>> There is no deadline

More to the point, the chairs are required to get the group to reach a
consensus, where possible, and proceed to another resolution mechanism
where consensus is impossible to achieve. Which is a deadline, just not
one that is expressed as a particular date.

> It seems unfair to require working group members to work to deadlines,
> refusing unbounded extensions or deadlines that are based on other
> actions, when the chairs are not similarly bound to strict deadlines.

There is a difference between a deadline for an activity which takes some  
amount of time, and one which is triggered by some event. In balancing  
these, it seems reasonable to impose deadlines on writing certain things  
that are important to reaching the relevant events.

(s/chairs/editor/ in your phrase and it appears to make as much sense -  
but in practise you operate by going through an issue and using the  
deadline "when all the feedback has been incorporated" or something along  
those lines. Is a clear way to improve the management of volunteered  
resources and a fundamental requirement for quality that the chairs should  
be adopting?).

cheers

Chaals

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