On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 at 22:58:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
No, that wasn’t the reason for the delay. Delays in the DIP
process always come down to someone waiting for a response from
someone else. Everyone involved has multiple priorities, so
when the next move comes down to any one person, it will happen
when that person is ready to make it happen.
In this case, Walter took much longer than usual to get to his
initial review. I’ve set a 30-day window for this, but this
time he went over. The email discussions with Paul happened
over a relatively short period. Then there was a long delay
while we waited for Paul to get the changes made. I was busy
enough that I put all DIPs out of mind for a while, so I wasn’t
pinging him asking for an update.
An honest explaination.
And this is not a fault with Paul. This happens with nearly
every DIP. All of the DIPs that have begun the process and are
currently in the queue are stalled waiting for the authors to
tell me they’re ready to move to the next round. I ping them
periodically, and eventually they’ll be ready.
Not Pauls fault nor yours. Were all more or less busy and/or lazy.
In any case, if there’s no news on a DIP, it’s almost always
because someone is waiting on someone else. If I’m not the
reason someone is waiting, then the only update I would ever be
able to give is “we’re waiting”.
Which would tell that it's not forgotten. You're technically
right, what would we do with the information that a DIP is not
(or is) forgotten? Perhaps ping sometimes ourselves but that's it.
But I think it still might have a bit morale value to do that
"we're waiting" update if a formal assesment misses that 30-day
window you mentioned, for instance. May be just my taste, though.
