Re: [HIG] Reschedule?

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

> On 10Oct2001 11:11PM (-0700), Adam Elman wrote:
> >  Uh, I don't think so.  My plan was for folks to keep their comments
> >  to themselves if they could make the meeting, then go through
> >  point-by-point on IRC and identify points of agreement and
> >  disagreement.  Then we can continue the discussion on the mailing
> >  list.  The only folks who needed to post before the meeting were
> >  those who couldn't make it (i.e. Kathy :).
> >
> >  So unless everybody else had a different understanding and is just
> >  being slow, I think that's still the plan.  Comments?
>
> I haven't had time to give the whole document a good reading yet, and
> I haven't had a chance to send comments on the sections I have read (I
> lost some in-progress comments I had). I probably won't be able to
> make the meeting.

That's fine.  Your comments as well as those of other reviewers will 
be welcome at any time during the review period.

> I would really like to see other people's comments as a whole in
> writing, because I don't think a lengthy IRC log will be a useful
> starting point to discussion.

I agree.  I or some other lucky volunteer will write a summary review 
of each section and post it to the list after the meeting.  (Sorry, I 
meant to mention this part of the plan before).  I think having one 
summary review will be more helpful than having everybody's 
individual review.  If you disagree, well, it would've been nice for 
you to mention that a week ago. :)

> Also, this document is quite long and there are many points to
> discuss. If even a quarter of those points are controversial, it will
> be a very long meeting. How many hours are scheduled for it?

As I said, I'm planning to be very aggressive about keeping 
point-by-point discussions short.  Anything that can't get resolved 
in a couple of minutes will get noted and tabled.

If this meeting is not useful in the first 30 minutes or so, I think 
it'd be reasonable to go to plan B and just have everybody mail their 
individual comments to the list.  The main reason for this meeting 
was that Seth suggested (and I agreed) that it was very important to 
get explicit agreement on each point, rather than simply arguing 
about points on which people disagree; otherwise bad things will slip 
through.  If that proves to be more trouble than it's worth, then I 
have no problem trying an alternate approach.

Adam

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