justinmclean commented on PR #47: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups/pull/47#issuecomment-5008619323
I ran the cost-estimation skill through a few offline checks and three gaps in SKILL.md stood out. None are blockers, but they'd bite in real use: Scoring only handles "over" estimate. The Variance Guidelines score being over the estimate (within 15% → 3, 15-30% over → 2, and so on) but there's no bucket for an applicant asking under estimate, which happens a lot: e.g. employer covering part, took the train, sharing a flat. The ASSESSMENT field also offers "Low" with no score to map it to, so two evaluators will pick different numbers for the same application. Could we define the under case (e.g. at or below estimate = Reasonable / 3) and spell out how Reasonable / High / Low map onto 0-3? Airfare bands cover only 5 of 21 continent-pairs. §1 has US domestic, US↔Europe, US↔Asia, intra-Europe and within-Asia. There is nothing for US↔Africa, trans-Pacific (Australia/NZ↔US), Europe↔Asia or US↔South America, which are exactly the routes a geographically-diverse program will see. Either add bands for those, or add a fallback: if there's no rule of thumb for the route, ask for a booking screenshot / live quote rather than estimating. Hotel bands have the same gap. §2 only has US, European and Asian nightly rates. There's nothing for Africa, South America, Canada or Oceania. Add those regions, or fall back to the applicant's own quote when there's no band. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
