Re: [apps-review] Early Cursory Reviews (Was: Suggested changes for Applications Area Review Team)

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Pete Resnick <[e-mail]> wrote:
> SM suggestions look good (caveat the concerns people have about
> auto-assigning things). But I did want to ask folks about one idea that I
> had to add on a task to the Review Team's normal things:
>
> In addition to doing Last Call reviews, I am considering asking folks on the
> review team to do the occasional preliminary early review. What I'm thinking
> of is creating a queue of documents from non-Apps WGs that might have Apps
> implications. For example, I think DNS stuff or things like MPTCP, which
> will eventually need APIs, would be likely candidates for things I might
> want to hear about, whereas BGP would probably not be one of these. In
> general, the ADs would add things to the queue that send up their antennae,
> but anyone would be welcome to throw something in the queue that they
> thought might be interesting. Every so often, you'd be asked to do a cursory
> read of the document and give a few sentence summary of whether or not Apps
> clue might need to be given, the size of the clue (gentle nudge or large
> bats), and the kinds of applications that would care.
>
> So the questions for the team:
>
> 1. Is this the sort of thing you think you all would be willing to do?

Yes.

> 2. How often would you be willing to do it? For example, is it reasonable to
> ask people to look at one document per week for this kind of quick review?
>
This seems high.  Even a cursory review takes time, and some of the
ones you mention (like the DNS sameness question or multipath) can
take some serious brain bending.  It may be obvious that apps clue is
needed, but getting to the point where you can set what sort of apps
clue is needed takes more time.  Once a month or even a hair more, on
top of the current schedule, seems reasonable.

Just my thoughts,

Ted
> One of the things I've been considering coming into the AD position is to
> get more early review done (by everyone, not just me) rather than waiting
> for Last Call, but without some sort of intelligent filtering, that would be
> impossible I think.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> pr
>
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