[boost] tweaking the review process (was: signals2 review results)

Subject: [boost] tweaking the review process (was: signals2 review results)
From: Stjepan Rajko (stjepan.rajko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-21 12:09:08

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Robert Jones <robertgbjones_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:40 AM, vicente.botet <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>>
>> * I had notice only at the end of the the review that the review tokes
>> place on two mailing lists (devel ans user). Maybe this is usaual on Boost
>> reviews but I was not aware. It will be more transaparent if all the reviews
>> were posted to the same mailing list, maybe a specific one should be
>> created.
>>
>
> A specific maillist for reviews strikes me as an excellent idea. In Joels'
> review
> of his Phoenix 2.0 library there were some outstanding contributions from
> people I don't see posting very often, but who apparently feel moved to do
> important stuff like reviewing. These comments did much to give me some
> historical context, and understanding of structure, alternatives and
> implementation
> decisions. These will inevitably be lost in the general background noise of
> on going developments, and it would be nice to have a clear place for these
> review comments.
>

Perhaps it would be sufficient to *strongly stress* that any post
related to the ongoing review should have [review] in the subject
line?  (although that doesn't address the problem of having the review
on both the dev and user lists...)

Stjepan