I would like to second the suggestion of trainee review managers. Perhaps that could be on a smaller library, not less important, but less in scope to look at. John Fletcher Jarrad Waterloo wrote:
There is a [mis]conception that using boost is easy but contributing to boost is hard. I am not sure if there is any truth to it or not. I would like to be a review manager but I don't know all that is involved / required. Worse still I don't how! I have similar problems with contributing code. Is there any good tutorials out there and maybe boost should consider apprenticeships where there may be multiple review managers; an experienced one training an inexperienced one. Anyway to make this process, transfer of experience, as easy as possible and your shortage of review managers could be a thing of the past.
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Phillips Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:17 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Languishing review requests
Has anyone (other than Tom and Ron) looked at the review queue lately?
There are some nice looking library ideas sitting there that can't be reviewed because no one has volunteered to manage the reviews. It has become a problem we shouldn't ignore.
The lifeblood of boost is the time donated by the authors of new libraries. However, for some of these authors, nothing has been done with their submissions for months as they wait for someone to volunteer to run the review. This has to be addressed.
I know that managing a review is time consuming. I know that many of the most experienced members of boost have been very busy with release issues. However, we need to address this problem. I'm working hard to find time to manage reviews on topics where I feel I have sufficient expertise, but we need people who understand the potential issues in these packages to step up and volunteer to run the languishing reviews.
So, now the question. What can we do to improve the situation? Is anyone willing to sign on? Is there so little interest in the work the developers have done that we should say "Thanks for the effort, but we're not interested right now?" Some response is needed, in place of the silence we have seen so far.
John Phillips
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