David Abrahams wrote:
on Thu Sep 11 2008, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
Jaakko Järvi <jarvi <at> cs.tamu.edu> writes:
The number of reviews for the dataflow library was very low (one, positive). This seems to be general theme nowdays. Maybe we can have some kind of pre-registration for people planing to submit the review and reschedule it if this number is less than some threshold (5?)
This seems like a good idea. There is supposed to be a "gauge interest" phase to the submission process. Is that failing to work, or are we ignoring its results, or are people claiming interest and then not submitting reviews?
I think, one significant reason for such a situation is that the delay between such a query of interest (and submitting the library review) and the actual review is quite big. For example, the recently reviewed Boost.FSM was in the queue for more than a year, IIRC. Although there were reasons for the delay in this particular case, it's not a sole example - many libraries don't even have review managers for months/years. So when the review happens, many potential reviewers that were excited about the library while the interest poll, now either are gone or found/developed another solution for their needs. I have no concrete suggestion for improvement on this, except maybe to limit the period of waiting in the review queue. OTOH, I'm not very happy with the suggestion as a potential library submitter, since my library could be simply bounced off from the queue for reasons I have no control on.