| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Private Comments Enabled |
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All, We have a new feature on the EclipseCon submission system. PC members have the ability to add private comments to EclipseCon submissions. These comments will only be seen by other PC members. Currently the default is to use private comments, but that should change soon so that the default behavior is for PC comments to be public. So why add the private comments? In an ideal world, all communication would be honest and open: no one would play politics, feelings would never be hurt, and we would all get puppies. If for some reason, you have a comment about a talk that you do not feel is appropriate to the whole world, but is useful to the PC, you can now use the private comments. I see this as being particularly valuable when assigning the un-allocated slots and the entire PC will be evaluating a number of talks for a limited number of slots. Hopefully it will save on some of the PC mailing discussions and make it easier for someone to come up to speed on the discussion for a particular talk. Private PC discussions show up with a unique color, and the notification mail will be clearly marked as private. Scott |