Jim/James: re:
... I submitted two books in good faith to DP which are now stuck there indefinitely after I contributed many many hours of my own time
Of your two projects, the first went from creation to completion of all rounds solely through the normal operation of the queues in two months, and is being post-processed/verified. If you have concerns as PM about specifics of the project or its status, you should contact the post-processor or the PP-verifier of the project via the several means available to you on the DP site. The second project has also gone from creation to completion of P1, P2, P3 and F1 in two months, also solely through the normal operation of the queues, and has been waiting in F2 for seven months. In the normal operation of the queues, this project would release about six weeks from now. That's pretty far from "indefinitely." I have taken the liberty of releasing this project into F2 where a group of F2 volunteers are focusing their efforts on it and will easily complete it before day's end, possibly before this post reaches the list. re:
... and I have no way to get those books back out.
Since you are the project manager, you could have assigned yourself as post- processor and requested that it skip F2. However, as the F2'ers are finding and correcting formatting and other errors, it's probably better that you didn't. Project managers have options within the DP process, including, but not limited to those mentioned above, either of which could have progressed your project. Any of the DP project facilitators, db-req, dp-help, or admins could have heard your concerns and and discussed options with you, which could have saved much of the frustration which you've expressed on this list, had you only asked. David (donovan) James Adcock wrote:
"My problem", if we have to talk about my problems of which there are many, is that I submitted two books in good faith to DP which are now stuck there indefinitely after I contributed many many hours of my own time and tears, and I have no way to get those books back out.