The way I look at is that its DP ball.

Yet, If the queues are so stuck up, then
DP has to shift its work force.

That is get volunteers trained and motivated so that
they can help clear the queues. 
This is simple economics. No production company
can afford to produce parts for a product and not
produce the end product.  

The only way for a company to to survive is to
out-source. Which would be prerelease.

Naturally, DP is not interested in making money,
yet the analogy holds true, for their goals.

regards
Keith.

Am 02.03.2010 um 23:41 schrieb James Adcock:

The negative reaction you're getting
is to your tone and tactics, not your news flash.

Sorry, but *my* negative reactions are based on DP people who say:

a) That there is no problem having books stuck on queues for an average of
3.5 years now.

And/or

b) Offer "solutions" which will not in fact reduce the size of the queues
and how long books sit there.

Again:

a) There IS a problem with having books stuck on queues, including that fact
that 1/3 of the volunteers' time and energy is being wasted currently.

b) Any proposed "solution" has to in fact act to reduce the size of the
queues and how long books sit there.  And it needs to do so without chasing
away any class of volunteers including P1s -- since P1s represent the future
of DP.

One simple suggestion to start with would be to start by changing the stated
"Goals" for P3 and F2 and PP to be larger than the Goals for P2 and F1.  To
do otherwise is to have DP suggesting that they want the queues to be even
longer than they are now. Right now the stated goals for P2 and F1 are
larger than the stated goals for P3 and PP -- which will only make the
queuing situation worse. The fact that the "Goals" are inverted would seem
to imply that the powers that be do not understand the nature of the problem
-- in which case how can they fix it?