RE: [tracker] Comments from XML Security and WS-Policy WGs [was: Re: [Done] Re: Migration of the "WS Policy Editors" Tracker instance]

> (1) The first item of feedback is that Tracker should allow actions
> to be assigned to "everyone".

I think this feature is very important.  There are many times when Chairs want to assign an action to everyone on a WG (e.g. review a specific proposal) to emphasize the importance of the work item.

/paulc

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vivien Lacourba [mailto:vivien@w3.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:42 AM
To: Frederick Hirsch
Cc: W3C WS-Policy Editors; Thomas Roessler; Christopher Ferris; Paul Cotton; Felix Sasaki; w3t-sys@w3.org
Subject: [tracker] Comments from XML Security and WS-Policy WGs [was: Re: [Done] Re: Migration of the "WS Policy Editors" Tracker instance]

Hi Frederick,

I am adding w3t-sys@w3.org which is the appropriate mailing list to send
tracker comments, and feature requests.

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 10:03 +0200, Frederick Hirsch wrote:
> First, thank you very much for Tracker and for making improvements.
> Tracker is a very useful took which we use regularly.

Thanks !

> (1) The first item of feedback is that Tracker should allow actions
> to be assigned to "everyone".
>
> This functionality was previously available and allowed us to create
> actions without  necessarily assigning an individual at the time of
> creation. This was useful both for actions on everyone as well as
> creating actions before assignment.

As you noted this was available in the previous version, but in the new
version we wanted to clarify that and decided that Action items should
be either unassigned or assigned to a single user.

So we actually replaced the 'Everybody' option by the 'Unassigned'
option. For the moment you can only create unassigned action items from
the Tracker Web interface.
This should be possible from the IRC interface too I am adding that to
our todo list [1] as this feature is missing in trackbot-ng.

>From my understanding this should fit your need (ie: having the
possibility to create an action item and only assign it later).

> (2) The second item is that it is very useful when tracker
> automatically links material in minutes to actions automatically, but
> it does not always appear to do so. I have seen this work in XMLSec
> but not in WS-Policy. Perhaps it relates to when the WG started using
> tracker, but that is speculation.
(...)
> This should close ACTION-375

As you noted your previous email has been recorded in the "WS-Policy
Editors" tracker instance [2].
If you notice a specific email that you think is missing from Tracker,
please ping us with the URI of the archived mail, so we can check
whether it's normal or not.

Note that the "WS Policy" tracker [3] is using the legacy code that is
not maintained by the Systeam.

After discussion with your chairs and team contacts it was decided that
first we will only migrate the "Editors" instance [4].

I am hoping that you are happy with the new version used for the Editors
and that you will soon come back to us asking to migrate "WS Policy" to
the new tracker code, so you can benefit from its added features, bug
fixes and W3C Systeam support.

Vivien

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/todo
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/actions/375
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicy/
[5] http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/

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