On Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 2:31 AM Vinnie Falco via Boost
Ironically, a robust discussion regarding the review process and the usage of Slack is now taking place... on Slack.
Arnaud made this suggestion which I am reposting here:
"... formalizing a "Retrospective" phase as an actual part of the Formal Review could be key in avoiding criticism against the process to leak into criticism against the proposed library."
I think this is a great idea. After each formal review result is announced, there is a new "retrospective" thread started which allows the community to reply and weigh in on how they thought the review was conducted. This actually happened organically in the last review of async-mqtt5 and I think it could be enhanced if the review wizard or review manager had pre-emptively started a retrospective thread where the replies could be accumulated. The subject line could for example be "[async-mqtt5] Review Retrospective"
What do you think?
NO. The review is over with the announcement of the result. IF you add an official discussion thread you will end up with a review of the review and no final decision will ever be accepted. The second guessing without serious reason needs to stop not be encouraged. It hurts the review process. Serious issues are to be brought up with the review wizards off-list. Criticism can be send to the RM off-list as well. If you want to discuss a past review it needs to happen after enough time has passed, so it doesnt turn into a second round of reviews. We could maybe discuss the "reviews of the past year" every december or something like that.