Queue review proposals

[David Planella]

Al 07/02/12 00:52, En/na Stéphane Graber ha escrit:
> On 02/06/2012 06:33 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
>> On 6 February 2012 09:30, Allison Randal<allison at lohutok.net> wrote:
>>> On 02/05/2012 11:38 AM, David Planella wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks for this.
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> We tried assigning reviewers in the first year of the ARB, and it didn't
>>> work. It just meant that reviews completely blocked when the assigned
>>> reviewer didn't have time, and no one else felt they could pick up the
>>> app and see it through.
>>>
>>> I'll suggest an alternative, which is that we each post to the mailing
>>> list with running updates on whatever apps we look at or work on and
>>> what we do. That way, we're all aware of the current status of
>>> submissions, and what needs to be done next.
>>
>> While I agree with the idea of blockers on certain packages, I also
>> think this might become a blocker too.
>>
>> I would instead recommend that the ARB picks a set of apps each week
>> and sees those apps through to completion. The problem we have right
>> now is that there are a stack of half-reviewed apps and David's goal
>> of the report is to bring visibility on those statuses to get them
>> over the hump.
>>
>>>>> - Sync up next Friday or any other suitable day next week on a 'Queue
>>>>> Review Status' meeting
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to sync on Fridays, during the review shifts seems to make
>>> sense. But, if it comes to a choice between spending time working on
>>> apps, and spending time talking about apps, the first is more important.
>>
>> Totally agree!
>>
>>> I'd rather see a commitment to spend an hour a week (anytime during the
>>> week) working on apps with an update sent to the mailing list, than a
>>> commitment to spend an hour a week (all at the same time) on IRC.
>>
>> So how about if there is a short meeting to pick the apps for the week
>> and then the ARB focuses on driving one of the following outcomes:
>>
>> * Approval
>> * Rejection
>> * Needs Information
>>
>> If there is a Needs Information I would recommend that the item stays
>> on the list to keep the urgency of the app in everyone's minds.
>>
>> Jono
>>
>
> With Feature Freeze right around the corner and a huge list of installer
> bugs to deal with, I won't be committing to spend any time on ARB
> reviews for the next month or so.
>
> I may be doing early cleanup (needs information/reject) when I see new
> stuff popping up in the queue but that's probably going to be about it.
>

Thanks Stéphane for letting us know, and thanks for all the work on apps 
this cycle so far, especially the heroic effort on getting the first 
Oneiric apps published during the Ubuntu Engineering Rally.

You rock!

Cheers,
David.