On 22 June 2010 01:20, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I wouldn't be too sure of that. You need to consider who the targeted audience is for your feedback. I would guess the organizers of the coming year(s). So a postmortem would make most sense on the wikimaniateamwiki (yes, another internal wiki). I had in 2008 for example much use of the program committee postmortem documentation of 2007 in Taiwan - even though it was not public. As long as it reaches the right people. It is a lot of effort to make a public version in some cases, and then I really dont see the point of obligating people to make such a version - especially if the consequence of that is that the chance they actually will do that, decreases.
I think once you've written a report it isn't too difficult to go through it and redact the very few things that can't be made public (it's not trivial, of course, but it's not too difficult). It's writing the thing in the first place that is hard work. Anyway, the redaction comes at the end, so if that bit ends up not getting done then you've still got the un-redacted version for those that really need it. If there isn't a public version, though, I think it is essential that bid teams are given access to the private one - once the bid is finished, it may well be too late to fix some problems that previous teams have learnt from.