Queue review proposals

[David Planella]

On 03/02/12 11:19, David Planella wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last night I spent a couple of hours looking through all apps in the
> queue and wrote a report [1] that I hope can be helpful as a first-pass
> review. I looked at all of the apps pending review, wrote some comments
> and recommendations on the next actions to take.
>
> I identified some low-hanging fruit apps that can be acted upon straight
> away by reviewing the submitted PPA or source package. The rest of the
> apps need a source package or a PPA.
>
> You'll see all these in the overview listed in the workflow section's
> tables.
>
> So here is my first proposal:
>
> I think it might be a good idea to distribute the work to cut down the
> queue by assigning reviewers to each package. Having looked at the queue
> in detail, I'm sure we can manage to reduce the queue to a manageable
> size and get some of these cool apps into extras by the end of next week.
>
> And I would like to suggest that:
>
> - Each ARB member picks up a slot in the 'Low-hanging fruit' table by
> adding their name to the 'Reviewer' column. Adding the name means
> committing to having reviewed the app by the end of next week
> - Each ARB member picks up two or more slots in the 'Rest of the queue'
> table in the same way. The first suggested actions on this table are
> asking feedback to the app author through MyApps, which shouldn't take
> more than a couple of minutes.
> - Sync up next Friday or any other suitable day next week on a 'Queue
> Review Status' meeting
>
> And the second proposal:
>
> - Building upon the idea of the 'Queue Review Status' meeting above, I
> think it might be useful to have such a weekly meeting to simply go
> through the queue and discuss and act upon which entries need attention.
> I know there are review shifts in place, but this would be more like a
> regular sync up to ensure the cadence of the reviews. Bhavani seemed to
> like the idea when I was chatting with him on IRC about it, and he
> pointed out that for Ubuntu development there used to be something
> similar in place, the REVU day.
>
> I think this could be helpful in reducing the time of replies and also
> the size of the current queue. What do you think?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/QueueReviewFeb2012Week1
>

Hi all,

Have you had the chance to look into this? Do you think the list above 
is helpful?

ajmitch has already signed up for reviewing some of the apps in the 
list. If someone else could give some feedback with thoughts on the 
proposals, that'd be awesome.

Thanks!

Cheers,
David