Re: [apps-review] Suggested changes for Applications Area Review Team

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

On 3/19/2011 3:38 PM, SM wrote:
> The real issue here is that the review is being assigned too late in the
> process. The time-critical aspect can be avoided by identifying the document to
> be reviewed earlier, i.e. when it is in Last Call.

+10


> There are problems in getting reviews done. When I first took over, it looked
> like an impossible task. Some people left the team and there was a shortage of
> XML reviewers. Reviews requested by WG Chairs took months to be delivered due to
> reassignments.

my impression is that you've whipped us into much better shape, more recently...


>> certainly agree it is excellent for you to do that. (By the same token, it is
>> an extra burden for you and while it's great that you are willing to carry
>> that burden, I would not want to write it into the formal job description,
>> since the next person doing this job might not be willing or able to incur
>> that extra effort.)
>
> I would not describe it as a burden as I signed up for it. I would like to hand
> over a group that works to the next person doing the job.

One of the problems with having a particularly eager and diligent person doing a 
task is that it is easy for the rest of us to lose sight of what is reasonable 
to demand, or at least expect, for the job.  I meant "burden" as a formal 
obligation, not as something that you or your successor might or might not find 
excessive.


> BTW, you message to apps-review was automatically discarded. I don't know why.

hmmm.  might have used the wrong From: address.  this one ought to work.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
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