Hi Michael, On 05/11/2019 21:50, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If we want the IESG job to be more reasonably sized, we have to take > > work away from the ADs. As far as I can see, that means taking away > > their duty of acting as final reviewers. I don't want to name names > > because I don't think the ADs are to be blamed individually, but some > > of them spend *enormous* effort on detailed reviews. > > +1 > > I think that there is a lack of trust by ADs of the various directorates. Other ADs have commented on this, but I think I need to repeat what they said and expand on it. Results are vary varied. Some are quite good (e.g. Gen-Art) and others really depend on reviewer. ADs responsible for Directorates are faces with the choice of firing half of their Directorates (which has some rather unfortunate consequences) and/or raise the bar on who should be allowed to join. We already struggle to recruit people at all levels of our organization. Best Regards, Alexey
