Maybe it would make sense to appoint a group of editors, rather than a single editor, and this group decides per vote? I'd feel much better if the responsibility is at least a little bit distributed between several people, and, most importantly, people who have been around for some time.
(Please note that I have no idea what these disputed PRs are really about. I looked at some of them, but was unable to see how they might affect me.) Martin On Wednesday 10 January 2024 at 16:21:54 UTC+1 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-10 at 06:49 -0800, William Stein wrote: > > Dear Sage Developers, > > > > 1. There are over 20 pull requests labeled as "disputed" [1]. To > > resolve these pull requests, we will be appointing an editor with no > > direct involvement in the pull request to make a judgement call on > > that particular pull request. We will then fully support the > > decision of this editor. If you have the time to be the (possibly > > anonymous) editor for a disputed pull request, please email us > > (wst...@gmail.com, vbrau...@gmail.com) and we'll add your name to > > our list. > > > > Many of these are disputed for the same underlying reasons. Appointing > a different editor for each PR is not likely to help. If you pick an > editor from Camp A, he or she will always rule in favor of Camp A; pick > an editor from Camp B... > > I foresee several problems resulting: > > 1. We'll wind up with disputes about how the editor was chosen in > place of disputed PRs. > > 2. The editor is essentially ruling in favor of a development > philosophy, and it would make little sense to rule against > the opinion of the majority of sage developers (if there is > such a thing). > > 3. It often doesn't make sense to rule in favor of Camp A for > one PR and Camp B for another. > > 4. It enables editor shopping and PR ping pong. Rule against me > the first time? I can try again in two weeks and hope for a > different editor. > > Different journal editors can accept competing publications without > much harm, but here that's not the case. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/93374416-398b-49fc-a5c8-2ad7982efdf2n%40googlegroups.com.
