revisiting OSAF status rollup

For the last few months, we've been attempting to put together a weekly 
OSAF "status rollup" on the wiki:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/WeeklyStatus20060407

Pieter takes the highlights and makes a blog entry:
http://wp.osafoundation.org/2006/04/17/osaf-status-overview-07-april-2006/

Lisa used to do this task, and last December asked if anyone found the 
status rollup useful. Several folks mentioned that they did:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2005-December/004545.html

The status to be "rolled up" and summarized is tracked in weekly meeting 
notes for some teams:
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/CommunityMtg20060407
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AppsMeeting20060406
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/PlatformMtg20060404

As more decisions happen on the list and fewer in meetings, we've also 
started doing list summaries:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2006-June/000963.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-June/004845.html
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2006-June/006138.html

Those of us responsible for updating the wiki status page haven't been 
keeping up with it regularly. Its not really clear to us that it is 
important to do so, given the move to doing more work on the lists. Its 
also not clear to us that anyone is reading the status wiki. We'd like 
to stop doing the wiki status rollups, and spend more energy on list 
discussions and summaries. One thing we can do is send out links to team 
meeting notes with highlights summarized to the appropriate lists.

We're going to go ahead and try this, and see how it works out. Comments 
welcome.

Cheers,
Katie











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