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

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Dave CROCKER wrote:

> On 3/19/2011 12:30 PM, Pete Resnick 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.
>
> +10.  excellent idea.
>
>> 1. Is this the sort of thing you think you all would be willing to do?
>
> Definitely.

Agreed. Should I populate the queue with my todo list ;-)?

>> 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?
>
> Frankly, I think that one a /month/ will prove to be a lot.  In spite 
> of characterizing it as "quick", meaningful review requires multiple 
> readings and iterative thought, before saying anything very useful, 
> particularly when the document has significant problems.
>
> 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.

+1.