tom petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ev> To be honest, this is not really easy to find volunteers to be
ev> shepherd, but sometimes it works ;-)
tp> My experience is otherwise (Routing, Ops WGs). I think it rare for a
tp> WG Chair to be shepherd and I often see a Chair asking for a
tp> volunteer to be shepherd and getting one, perhaps a Chair of another
If document shepherding is working well in the Routing area, that's really
great news. Can you teach the rest of us how to be better?
tp> WG. (I am amazed, looking at the Datatracker, how many names there
tp> are that I think of as document authors who are actually WG Chairs of
tp> another WG).
Well, so maybe this is really what's happening: people who are chairs know
the challenges that other chairs have.
tp> Where the process may be less good is the production of the shepherd
tp> report and discussion thereof, taking time and not having a mechanism
tp> for resolution of disagreements between Shepherd and WG Chairs.
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