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I've always wanted to know why it takes so long to get PFS chronicle sheets for the adventure paths. It doesn't seem as though the process should be that difficult and it could easily be done as the module/path is being created. Our group loves to play adventure paths on the weekend and we also play PFS scenarios at conventions and local gaming stores. It would be nice to enjoy the benefits of PFS credit when these adventure paths come out, not months or years later.
The apartment writers do not set up the ap's to be pfs legal. It is then the pfs group that later when they have time in between all their other responsibilities come back and determine sanctioning.
Or at least that's how it would appear to me.
What Mulgar said combined with the fact that "the team" sanctioning APs is a a very small group of people (I want to say mainly JohnC and one other) who are also planning, overseeing and editing all PFS scenarios; making rulings; attending events/conventions; and goodness knows what else.
I strongly suspect they prefer to play through them before sanctioning them as well. At the very least, they have to read through the books very carefully and weigh everything that appears in them for it's potential impact to Organized Play. Then they have to develop an interesting hook to put on the Chronicle sheets and author those.
From what I've seen in the two I'm at all familiar with, the boons on the Chronicles are tied into the overarching story-line of the AP and the sanctioning is done for an AP as a whole. This means they probably don't start the actual sanctioning until the entire AP is released.
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As others have said sanctioning is mostly just John and Linda. They are already designing the 30 or so scenarios a year, going to meetings, going to cons, prize support for cons, ect. Then to do an AP set of sheets they have a lot to do:
1) Read the whole AP, figure out which part (if any) will be playable.
2)List out all of the possible loot
3)figure out if all of the loot should be available, and/or partially charged on the sheet
4) assign the value of the loot for the chronicle sheet
5)figure out the Gold for the sheet
6)figure out if there is a boon that should be provided and write that up.
7)send it to editing to be reviewed.
So normally John (and Linda now) gets time to sit down and do a few just after Gencon. We usually don't see these until December. I believe that they were working backwards... but with the Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover coming out, That may be getting preference.
Just looking at the loots and figuring out playable areas for an AP can take over a 40 hour week depending on the AP