On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:38 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:12 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Craig Citro <craigci...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> Maybe I'm just hung up on the word "assign", since it does most of >>>>> what I would want, it just seems pushy. >>>> >>>> I put the relevant usernames in the cc: box, presuming that they might >>>> take the hint. Do they? I haven't collected data :) >>>> >>> >>> Indeed, I think what Nick's describing is a really good system. I've >>> often been cc'd on tickets, and I've definitely reviewed many of those >>> (which I presumably wouldn't have otherwise seen). >> >> Well, for the record, on about 4 occasions I have systematically went >> through and read all tickets that "needs review", for each one come up >> with 1-2 people who could review them, then wrote those people a >> personal email asking them to do the review if possible. In practice >> this does work very very well. This exactly mirrors the review system >> used by journals. I will continue doing this until I can convince >> somebody else to help out. > > I just want to add that in my experience people (1) often consider it > an honor to be asked to review tickets, and (2) very often they do an > amazing job when asked, and (3) likely wouldn't review anything > otherwise, perhaps because they are too humble. I can think of many > people who might never have considered themselves "qualified" to > review before I asked them, but when asked they really stepped up and > in fact did a *great* job. (You know who you are -- thanks!)
I have the exact same experience. Not only about reviewing, but also about mentoring or anything else (like asking someone to implement something). A direct personal email can do miracles. It's very time consuming, it's lots of talk and no coding. :) But it's necessary. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
