Re: [Boost-users] [boost] tweaking the review process

on Mon Dec 15 2008, John Phillips wrote:

David Abrahams wrote:

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on Fri Nov 21 2008, "Stjepan Rajko" wrote:

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM, vicente.botet wrote:

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I would like to make some suggestion to improve the review management:

Thank you for starting this discussion.

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* I had notice only at the end of the the review that the review tokes place on two mailing lists (devel ans user). Maybe this is usaual on Boost reviews but I was not aware. It will be more transaparent if all the reviews were posted to the same mailing list, maybe a specific one should be created.

Yes, this is a bit of an issue. I mentioned that both lists are used in my post that opened the review (in my notes to first-time reviewers) to try to give people a heads-up (but... I often get long-winded and I'm sure it's easy to miss parts of my posts :-)).

Having a dedicated, or at least recommended mailing list (either dev or user) might be a good thing.

It has always been the -devel list, at least up until recently. How reviews began being posted to -users, I do not know.

I don't know if I was the first to do this, but I have done it. Looking at the current contents of the instructions to review managers, either they have changed since I started managing reviews or I somehow hallucinated extra words to add the user list to the lists that should receive an announcement of the review.

An announcement is one thing; instructing people to post their reviews in the same list is a different thing entirely. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com