[App-review-board] ARB queue status

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello,

thanks a lot for the update Allison!

On 15.12.2011 19:11, Allison Randal wrote:
> To give an engineering estimate, I'd say the equivalent of one full-time
> person would be sufficient to keep the queue clear. The review shifts
> don't add up to a full-time person, but that is pretty much all the time
> the volunteers currently have available to commit.
> 
> More hands would be useful, but I suspect we're in the same boat as REVU
> here, in terms of shortage of volunteers. One thing we can do now is
> focus our efforts on sending quick replies where possible (a lot of the
> new submissions have obvious problems like missing source packages).
> And, once the automatic packaging tools go online in January, that
> should substantially change what we can accomplish with limited time.

what kind of things will the automatic tools make easier? Is this going
to be server-side tests or is it going to be something around pkgme?

Do you feel like a public call for help with the queue achieve anything?
Maybe we could try to organise a day where the ARB gets together with
others who are interested in testing/reviewing the packages?

I know that the task of reviewing these packages is sometimes not easy,
especially when weird packages are coming in, but I wonder how we can
get a bit more momentum.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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