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- From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
- Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.023423.14527@virtech.uucp>
- Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
- References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug12.152145.26416@osf.org> <1992Aug14.150535.15169@rick.dgbt.doc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 02:34:23 GMT
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- andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
-
- >> The percentage of submissions that do not get resubmitted is too high.
-
- >Agreed. As of last count 14/41 (34%) of the submission had been
- >reviewed and changes had been recommended, but the authors had not
- >submitted a new version. The reasons behind this are not known.
- >Perhaps people are not interested in producing the best software they
- >can. I don't believe that the reviews we have been returning have been
- >unreasonable, but others who have been through the review process
- >should answer this question.
-
- I guess I can respond to this one. I submitted my malloc debugging library
- to c.s.r last november and I can say that I came very close to not
- completing the task myself. In fact, nowadays, I just post my stuff to
- alt.sources because it is easer.
-
- My submission went as follows:
-
- 11/25 submitted to c.s.r
- 11/25,26 problems reported with the shar mechanism that I had
- used which caused some lines which were ".." to loose
- one of the "."s and some embedded control chars in
- the manual page.
- 11/27 request from c.s.r for resubmission with the package
- put together with the "correct" shar file and a
- uuencoded version of the library
- ~12/1 library resubmitted (11/27 was thanksgiving holiday
- weekend)
- 12/30 reviews back requests for changes, additional
- documentation, changes to the config procedure
- 12/31 re-submitted
- 1/25 reviews back, more requests for changes.
- ~2/1 re-submitted
- 3/25 I asked what was up with the library
- 3/26 c.s.r reported that there were still some problems, but
- he was going to post it as is.
- 3/31 library posted.
-
- During the time frame 11/25 - 3/31, the library did change substantially,
- but that was due to the constructive comments of the people whom I had
- distributed the library to via email, not from the reviews performed by
- c.s.r.
-
- Also note that on 3/31 (the posting date) the code was already
- out of date by approx 2 months.
-
- >submitters are serious about their software, we are usually able to
- >complete a couple of rounds of reviews and get things posted within a
- >few months.
-
- I think that is way too much time and too many reviews. I think the
- community would be much better served by a much faster and much less
- nit-picky mechanism that precluded a reviewer from being able to say
- things like, "I don't like the way he did that".
-
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