Re: [Tools-discuss] Non-WG lists list

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Thu, 19 November 2020 19:49 UTC

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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:49:50 +0100
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Understood.

IMHO, what i was asking for is also primarily better visibility.
Owner of list could be entered informally into the description, and
changelog shuold be standard IMHO on stuff like this

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 08:46:20PM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-11-19, at 18:20, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Each list should have:
> > 
> > a) A visible "owner" of the list. Whatever that is (IESG, IAB, any other "org", individual)
> > 
> > b) A history of the description of the list with who and when the description was changed.
> > 
> > That would allow for anyone getting to what looks like a stale list to do a bit more of an
> > educated guess whats going on with the list.
> > 
> > From then on out, we could determine if therer should be
> > 
> > c) a trigger to the owner to update the list after some type of event, such as:
> > c.1) There was no mail to the list for 1 year
> > c.2) The description was not changed for 5 years.
> 
> I wasn???t asking for more process, just for a better display of the list.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten

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