Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Rick Spencer]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 19:16 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> On 08/13/2010 07:06 PM, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > For your #2, it seems that the pressure for more reviewers will come if
> > there are more apps to be reviewed. I'm not clear on why the apps being
> > bound for one repository or another will significantly change that
> > equation, but I'll take your word for it.
> 
> I think the issue William was trying to bring up is that we'll be
> splitting reviews across two different locations, thus requiring
> reviewers to either:
> 
>  A) follow both sites, and now I have two places to check
>  B) choose one, and now there's one less potential reviewer for the
> other site
Ah, that make sense. I guess I'm being to optimistic to hope that an
exciting new feature would attract new talent and rather expand the pool
for reviewers rather than stretch the current pool ever thinner.

> 
> >> Backports.
> > I don't actually recall why backports wasn't chosen for the repository.
> > I remember that it was discussed in some detail, though.
> 
> Backports is appropriate for when a package is already in the next
> Development release. This would involve a change in what backports  means.
> 

Cheers, Rick