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Subject: Re: [boost] review system in place is extremely slow? (was Re:[rfc] rcpp)
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-25 09:41:10


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nevin Liber" <nevin_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] review system in place is extremely slow? (was Re:[rfc] rcpp)

>
> On 24 February 2010 11:10, Michael Fawcett <michael.fawcett_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>
>> Setting up the web backends for all of this sounds like a lot of work,
>>
>
> Given that we don't have enough volunteers to be review managers, where
> exactly are you going to find the volunteers to do all this setting up and
> maintaining web backends?
>
> In a volunteer community, proposals of the form "here is what I am going to
> do to make this happen" tend to go a lot further than "here is what I want
> the community to do to make this happen".

Yes, this is the kind of improvements I was waiting for. Good ideas are great, but help to implement not so good ideas can be better.
Have the people that claims the process is slow thouth about proposing themselves as review managers? Note, that I have already forgot who told that the process is slow :)

Best,
Vicente


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