Peer Review for Quality Control

[jaHsaaymi]

I like the idea of peer review for quality control. Being a recognized
expert in a field counts and so it does in programming and software
design. I believe a product is only as good as the person/group of
people who make it (not through rational thought, but through a
process of experience with projects) and it makes absolutely no
difference whether the thing is 'open' or not to the public as systems
are almost always 'open' to the designers.

From: http://www.boost.org/users/proposal.pdf

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While involving programmers in a community centered around an
attractive web site is a lofty goal, long
run success requires high quality libraries. That means making it easy
and rewarding to submit libraries,
yet providing a filtering mechanism to eliminate well-meaning but
sophomoric submissions. An online
peer review process seems a reasonable starting point. Initially a
library would be posted in a probationary
area of the site and only accepted into the repository if it received
favorable peer reviews. Programmers
will be encouraged to sign up as peer reviewers, but will have to
identify themselves and post a capsule
biography.
A guiding principal is to encourage wide participation and
interaction. Get people involved, in newsgroups,
mailing lists, as peer reviewers, library contributors and
maintainers, and as moderators and webmasters.
And, of course, as library users.

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Regards, jaH.