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

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

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.


> 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.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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