Re: Coordinator timeouts (was Re: Managers, addressses and the like)

[Mark Little <mcl@arjuna.com>]

>  The minutes recorded the decisions of the meeting. As you admit, no such
decision
> was taken. I have no intention of capturing your every thought for
posterity when
> taking minutes of a working body.

First of all this was not just a "thought", so please try not to be
condescending. Secondly, it is inaccurate to say that no decision was
taken: no vote was taken, but certainly the people involved in the
coversation decided that it was valid to send the coordiator timeout
downstream.

I expected the minutes of the meeting to contain more than just
the votes that were
taken. In the past (e.g., when Peter Furniss took minutes) they have
recorded more than just the things that we (or more importantly you as the
chair) decided that we should vote on. Granted these are important, but as
we have seen over the last week or so, things that were said at meetings but
which weren't voted on explicitly did have a general concensus.

I realise that not everything that is said in these meetings can be put down
in the minutes simply because of time and space considerations. My original
comment was not meant as a
criticism of your chairing of the meeting or of your minute taking, but more
of the fact that you appeared to imply that the conversation did not take
place. It did, and was on precisely the topic I have referred to previously
in email.

>
> If you want a stenographic record, please feel free to get HP to pay for
the court
> recorder. I wish you luck.

Thank you for this constructive addition to the discussion!

Mark.

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