Re: [boost] Re: [administrative] Formal Review Process

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-25 11:43:05

At 09:15 AM 1/25/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:32:32 -0800, Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >>
 >>>Therefore I propose opening a dedicated mailinglist that handles review 

 >>>requests and formal reviews.
 >>
 >> Or choose a standard tag (such as '[admin]') for these kinds of
 >> things. This way users could simply set up a suitable mail filter.
 >
 >Thomas and I discussed both options (I think [review] would be a more
 >appropriate tag).  The thing I like about the mailing list is that
 >review commentary has a value all its own, and it would be great to be
 >able to search reviews separately.  There'd be a GMane mirror of
 >course.  I also happen to think that the tag approach is more prone to
 >unintentional errors of omission.

Either way is OK with me, but see below.

One other point; we currently have only a single person organizing the 
reviews. Inevitable, that person gets busy, and things slip. This happened 
when I scheduled review, and it is happening now with Thomas.

So I think we should consider spreading that responsibility among, say, 
three or four people.

One advantage of a separate list would be that those three or four people 
could be the list moderators. Say the list is named "boost-review". Then 
mail to "boost-review-owner" could be used for coordination between review 
moderators.

Would that make sense?

--Beman