Re: Review Manager Volunteers

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-04-18 14:47:29

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2025 04:51, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> >
> > The domain-specific expertise should come from the reviewers; the
> > review manager should (minimally) just be qualified enough to evaluate the
> > reviews.
> 
> Reviewers are allowed to be less familiar with the domain, and in fact may not
> be familiar at all. There were plenty examples of such, including myself in the
> recent Boost.Hash2 review. The review manager's job is to weigh the quality
> and relevance of the reviews, and to be able to do that the review manager
> has to be at least as qualified as the reviewers, very preferably more.

For Hash2, we got a review from one of the authors of Blake2 (if we knew that
in advance we'd certainly have included Blake2 in the initial submission.)

I don't think it would have been realistic to expect or demand equal or higher
level of expertise from the review manager in this case.