John Marshall wrote:
Pushing them public after a certain period of time without review
would completely defeat the point of the sandbox and review process. A
better solution is just to have more reviewers. I don't know what you
mean by favorite extensions, but popular extensions are (almost)
always pushed through quickly.
Having more reviewers is only a better solution if it's possible and
means more extensions get reviewed. And given that folks have been
pining for more reviewers for years, I don't think it's possible, at
least not under the current system, in which there is little incentive
and significant disincentive to review.
And I'm not sure it even would even mean more extensions would get
reviewed. Reviewers focus their attention on the extensions that
interest them. And that bias, which is perfectly reasonable (it is
"scratching one's own itch" in true open source fashion), means that
extensions with a limited audience (or even a large one that doesn't
happen to include the kinds of people who self-select to be reviewers)
would get less review even from a larger body of reviewers.
I don't agree with John Woods that we should auto-publicize extensions
that languish in the sandbox, but I do think we should recognize that
review, as currently constituted, does not accomplish the goal of
expediently publicizing good extensions (nor, for that matter, filtering
bad ones), and AMO should be looking for ways to accomplish that goal
outside of the current review system.
-myk
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