Re: [apps-review] Early Cursory Reviews

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Sun, 20 March 2011 10:11 UTC

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SM writes:

> 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?

No -- 1 per month maybe, and not, of course, when a 'real' review is
also underway.

Dave CROCKER writes:

> The "quick" will help avoid doing the detailed part of the review, but
> I find the difficult part of a review to be formulating coherent,
> summary assessments.

Exactly: "I'm sorry this is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter"

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