My apologies to the group. I have had an urgent personal matter call me away, and Matthias is not available to chair. This makes only the second call in over a year that I have missed, and I am particularly sorry to cancel chairing at the last minute.
We have 50 overdue actions (owners are cc'ed) down from 55 last week, as listed below.
- All actions will get a one week extension due to my not being able to make the call today.
- Expect overdue actions that are not Pending Review by next week to be closed for lack of activity, unless they are less than two weeks old (that is, assigned on 7 October or more recently.)
Suggestions if you have fallen behind but still plan to complete your actions:
- Use the time today when you would have been on the call.
- If you are working with someone else to complete the action, you know they have the call time free too, which might be a good time to talk.
- Find another group member to take the action, and cc me and Nick on email. The new author will get an additional week.
When you complete your text and send it to the mailing list, please remember to include "action-n" (where n is the number of the action) in the subject line and change the status of the action to Pending Review (not to Closed.) Feel free to ask for help with any mechanics.
I notice we have people spending time on dlist posts arguing with each other in unproductive ways yet not getting to action items that could move documents -- and their ideas -- forward. This is not optimal.