Phobos Review Queue

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 22:41:56 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 19:50:51 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
>> std.uni was recently accepted for inclusion in Phobos, and as 
>> far as I'm aware there are no reviews currently in progress.
>>
>> We currently have a backlog of several modules that are ready 
>> for comments or review[1]. There seems to be no real schedule 
>> for starting reviews other than "when someone pushes for it".
>>
>> I'm ready to start a discussion on a D lexer module I've 
>> written for inclusion in Phobos. There are several modules in 
>> line ahead of mine, so I'm willing to hold off on this if the 
>> authors of those other modules are ready for review.
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Review_Queue
>
> Looks like there are no objections. I'd say you're up. Just 
> need a Review Manager.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, all that a Review Manager seems to do is 
> send out the announcements of the (typically 3 week) review and 
> then announce the week long voting period and finally tally and 
> post the results.  I don't see why the person proposing the 
> module can't be the Review Manager too.  I don't really see any 
> sort of conflict of interest when the vote is done publicly and 
> the vote count is usually fewer than a couple dozen.
>
> Anyone disagree?  I think it could really help move the review 
> queue along if people don't have to wrangle up a Review 
> Manager.  Instead they could just post like Brian has done 
> making sure they aren't stepping on anyone's toes.

Found the description of the process: 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/Process

It's somewhat vague and could probably use some standard 
announcement templates people could use.

Looks like it's actually two weeks of review, one week of voting. 
  I still think the module author should be able to be Review 
Manager though.