The queues also seem to have the effect of promoting the release
of short, easier projects at the expense of longer, more challenging
ones. Consequently some of the more significant works are delayed.
In June of 2005, the nine volumes of
The Works of William Shakespeare - Cambridge Edition
were submitted. This was before the queues era, and the records
aren't clear, but the first volume (processed as 6 separate projects,
1 play per project) were completed and became available by
the end of 2006.
Volumes 2 to 8 are sitting in the F2 queue, waiting to be released
so they can be formatted as the last step before post-processing
and eventual submission to PG. The first of them has yet to make
its way completely through since the introduction of queueing.
(I can't tell where Volume 9 is - it may not have been submitted yet.)