Ronald Garcia skrev:
Hi Thorsten
On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
Also, some of the libs are very small, and should be made as fast- track reviews.
Furthermore, I think very specialized reviews should be able to happen in parallel with other reviews without any problems. The specialized review would simply require that a number of reviews be found in advance.
A few unexpected turns of events with several reviews in the queue have caused delays recently. When you factor those in, getting review managers for libraries has definitely been more of a sticking point.
I don't think there's any benefit right now to forcing reviews into smaller slots or running more in parallel. We are not short on open time slots in which perform library reviews. More often we are short on submitted library reviews. Many recent library review periods have been extended in order to get a reasonable number of full reviews from boost participants.
Right.
Shortening library rno eviews to fast-tracks and running reviews in parallel will shrink the pool of people who can provide reviews within the time period and split the pool of reviewers, seeing as some reviewers will be interested in multiple libraries and but not have time to perform multiple reviews.
We could need some wiki or something were interested reviewers could sign up (for being a potential reviewer) and record their experience in the area. This would be very useful for the review managers.
What do you see as the benefit of such a wiki? It's not obvious to me.
Example: if I had to be review manager for "Floating Point Utilities", I could see if there was a reasonable list of people with the right experience so the review could commense. Very often, there absolutely no overlap between libraries. Furthermore, if the review manager gathers 5-10 people in advance with experience in the area of floats, I see absolutely no reason that the review should wait 10 months for an available time slot. Gathering reviewers *after* the review starts is often too late, because people need time to plan well ahead. -Thorsten