On 2/19/2011 3:57 PM, Gordon Woodhull wrote:
Hi Ron, Ed, all,
On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Ronald Garcia wrote:
On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 2/18/2011 9:36 AM, Ronald Garcia wrote:
At this time you should try to find a review manager for the library.
I am not sure how one goes about doing that, but I will assume I am supposed to ask for one on this mailing list.
That's right. The review wizards will also be putting out a report which requests managers for libraries that don't have one, but individual appeals are often more effective.
I have been mulling over Joachim's Review Manager Assistant proposal, and I have a couple of thoughts about review manager assignments.
First, as Joachim and many others have pointed out, the review "queue" that's described in http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html#Wizard doesn't exist and isn't the right idea.
It does not exist as far as that anybody can see it but maybe it does exist otherwise. But I think it is the right idea in that there should be some people who are accepted as possible reviewers who can be contacted if no one else volunteers to review a particular library. I see nothing wrong with that situation.
I don't think it makes sense for the Review Wizards to try to assign review managers to libraries - it's much better for people to volunteer based on their own interests and expertise. That is what is happening in practice.
I agree on principle but if no one volunteers then certainly a library in the review queue should not be rejected simple for lack of a review manager.
Ed, you volunteered to be a review manager about a month ago. Have you approached any of the authors of prospective libraries on http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html who are listed as needing review managers?
I was told to contact the review wizards and offer up my services to review libraries. I did so, and mentioned the libraries I felt I could review. As I understand it, it was then up to the review wizards to determine whether I was qualified to review a library and to contact me about doing so if they thought that I was. I was not subsequently contacted. What do you mean "approached any of the authors of prospective libraries" ? I initially offered to review a number of libraries but was told to do what I described in the preceding paragraph.