Resigning from the ARB

[Jono Bacon]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Allison Randal <allison at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 10:37 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> This probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to most of you, but I'm
>> resigning from the ARB.

Thanks for your wonderful contributions, Jonathan!

> But, the whole experience of the competition really raises a question of
> whether having a limited set of "gatekeepers" on app review works at
> all. It certainly doesn't scale to a rapid influx like this competition.
> Volunteers have a number of hours to contribute each week, and can't
> just arbitrarily create an infinite number of additional hours out of
> thin air. I was concerned about scalability from the very beginning, but
> for the first couple of years we managed to just barely lag behind the
> rate of submissions. That's not going to be possible now (it's not just
> about the initial influx of apps, there's also updates to review).

Despite the best efforts of the ARB, the gatekeeper approach is
definitely not working. With this in mind I have been working with
some folks to propose a new process for app devs. I will post about it
next week when some of the thinking is jotted down.

    Jono

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