Re: [boost] A Remedy for the Review Manager Starvation

Subject: Re: [boost] A Remedy for the Review Manager Starvation
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-15 09:39:35

Joachim Faulhaber wrote:

> (ad 2) A Review Manager Assistant (RMA) ...
> (2.1) does all the work that is necessary to check a library
> submission, organizes the process, moderates and files a final report,
> (2.2) unburdens the review manager from all kinds of detail work,
> except for the final verdict.
> (2.3) rejects the library submission, if it not yet fulfills all requirements.

Could you clarify how a review manager can make a "accepted/not accepted"
decision in good faith without personally reading all discussion? This
seems only possible RM considers RMA at least as experienced and himself,
in which case why not such RMA cannot be a regular release manager.

In other words -- if you force every author of proposed library to be an RMA,
then, on the average, he might not be the best person to make decision on
other libraries, and then you need a real RM to real all discussions and decide,
which does not seem to improve on anything.

- Volodya