"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message:
My only suggestion for shortening the formal review period would be to somehow encourage or develop reviews of libraries in advance -- thus reducing the amount of comment during the formal review. Anyone can go review boost::fsm, just to pick one, and go review the code and docs and post it to the list. The problem is, however, there is an additional dynamic during the formal review -- reviewers read other reviews and discuss them. Perhaps if there was a way of gathering review comments over a longer period (via wiki page or something) we could shorten this last phase.
This sounds like a good idea. But would it require that proposed libraries be frozen for a certain period before the formal review begins? I know I took advantage of the long wait (something like 8 months) between proposal and review of iostreams to make lots of improvements, some as recent as one month ago. Jonathan