Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sat Aug 14 00:49:44 BST 2010


On Friday, August 13, 2010 07:20:32 pm Rick Spencer wrote:
> 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.
> 
Except the skill and experience set needed for reviewing is not the same one 
the new feature is trying to attract.  

Scott K



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