RE: Quality of Directorate reviews

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Wed, 06 November 2019 14:38 UTC

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:38:07 -0500
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
To: "Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com>
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Subject: RE: Quality of Directorate reviews
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:

> Perhaps RFCs could list (within the document) who reviewed/approved them, and in which role/capacity the review had been performed.
>
> This could serve two purposes:
> - some minimal reward for those individuals taking the time to review the document,
> - encouragement for the reviewers to ensure that an adequate review has been performed based on the role/capacity in which they are acting.

I think I like this idea, but also, speaking for myself I would refuse
to review a few more documents of things that are too far out of my
area of expertise (which might be a good or bad thing, depending on
whether anyone else steps up)

Paul