Extraction of placement and departure of Jay are drastic, IMHO. But this is just the kind of thing I really wanted to avoid attempting to quantify -- see below.
I'm pretty sure Jay wasn't doing 60% of the reviews in Nova, justifying an equivalent drop in our available throughput. Further, I thought splitting out placement was supposed to *reduce* the load on the nova core team? If anything that was a time sink that is now finished, placement is off soaring on its own merits and we have a bunch of resource back as a result, no?
I'd love to discuss suggestions for other numbers, or other concrete mechanisms for saying "no" for reasons of resource rather than technical merit. My bid (as of [1]) is 30 approved, shooting for 25 completed (83%, approx the peak of the above numbers). Go.
How about approved specs require a majority (or some larger-than-two number) of the cores to +2 it to indicate "yes we should do this, and yes we should do it this cycle"? Some might argue that this unfairly weight efforts that have a lot of cores interested in seeing them land, instead of the actual requisite two, but it sounds like that's what you're shooting for? --Dan