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Re: [Tools-discuss] Time/Deadline tracking tool?

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Tue, 20 December 2005 13:12 UTC

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The *very* long tail is indeed mainly very special cases, and is
mainly a concern because it skews the mean value. So percentiles
are the way to go; we could regard the 50th percentile as a key
indicator for example.

     Brian

Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com wrote:
> I like the idea. Maybe the prediction could be a probability 
> distribution as well?
> 
> Something like "25% of documents go from WGLC to RFC in <=X1 months,
> 50% in <=X2 months, 75% in <=X3 months"?  This way, the horribly 
> long tail wouldn't skew the figures so much, and you could pick 
> either an optimistic or pessimistic estimate depending on the
> document and your mood :-)
> 
> Speaking about the long tail....
> 
> o  draft-ietf-rsvp-proxy has been in AD Evaluation :: 
>    Revised ID Needed (jpeterson) for 1082 days
> o  draft-ietf-megaco-h248v2 has been in Publication Requested :: 
>    External Party (jpeterson) for 928 days
> o  draft-bradner-pbk-frame has been in IESG Evaluation :: 
>    Revised ID Needed (rhousley) for 891 days
> o  draft-polk-ieprep-flow-model-considerations has been in 
>    AD Evaluation :: External Party (jpeterson) for 698 days
> o  draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd has been in IESG Evaluation :: 
>    External Party (jpeterson) for 667 days
> o  draft-ietf-imapext-sort has been in IESG Evaluation :: 
>    AD Followup (sah) for 640 days
> o  draft-hardie-bounded-longest-match has been in AD Evaluation :: 
>    External Party (azinin) for 629 days
> o  draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-as has been in Waiting for 
>    Writeup (fenner) for 520 days
> o  draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3 has been in Waiting for 
>    Writeup (fenner) for 520 days
> o  draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis has been in IESG Evaluation :: 
>    AD Followup (becarpenter) for 516 days
> o  draft-ietf-ips-scsi-mib has been in Expert Review :: 
>    AD Followup (mankin) for 516 days
> 
> :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Pasi
> 


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