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I'd like the document to also address the tracker system.

PLEASE NOTE that the i18n WG has a special way of using Tracker, to support its horizontal reviews. We have developed the system so that products are associated with specs that are reviewed – enabling us to track the issues down to zero for each spec, and to find issues easily for previous reviews of the same spec. See http://www.w3.org/International/track/products. It's the use of tracker for managing these reviews that I am particularly interested in.

One enabler for the setup we use at the moment was the introduction of issue tags starting with i18n- to prevent our issues being mixed with those of another WG when we send emails. We'd need to keep this.

We have a process that describes how to review specs and raise issues, then review the issues and work with the respective WG. See http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/review-instructions. It would be nice to automate much of that, since our review contributors keep missing things. It would also be nice to have a fresher, less clunky looking UI.

It would also be nice to enable discussions to take place in the tracker itself, or do a better job of importing information from emails and external bugzilla dbs. It would be interesting to develop some ideas around how that could happen.

Hope that's helpful, and eventually fruitful.
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