Re: [Tools-discuss] Historical information on leadership positions

Hi Jim -

The short answer is "no, the datatracker doesn't have this information".

Giving it this information would be a herculean task - I've started to 
make runs at it a few times over the years. The effort would ultimately 
rely on collecting people's memories.

There is a notion of GroupHistory/RoleHistory that was designed to 
capture this kind of thing, but the GroupHistory objects haven't been 
consistently created every time roles change.

For instance, you can't see from the datatracker that, or when, I was 
chair of SIMPLE for many years. The best you can tell is that I was its 
AD when it closed.

Henrik may have more to add.

RjS

On 11/25/19 5:16 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
> In NomCom this year, we found the "person" pages on datatracker (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/John%20Doe ) to be quite useful in
> seeing what the contributions of the nominees have been and what their
> current roles are.
>
> While datatracker gives information on expired Internet Drafts where the
> person is an author, it only gives current information on roles (WG
> chair, AD, IAB, etc.) they hold. In evaluating a nominee, it would be
> helpful to have historical roles the have held as well. Is this
> information available in the database? If not, is there a way we can put
> together the historical record to make this available?
>
> -Jim
>
>
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