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- From: jmcarli@srv.PacBell.COM (Jerry M. Carlin)
- Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.153042.12235@PacBell.COM>
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- References: <1992Aug14.150535.15169@rick.dgbt.doc.ca> <1992Aug17.023423.14527@virtech.uucp> <Bt5M67.273.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:30:42 GMT
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- In article <Bt5M67.273.2@cs.cmu.edu> tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
- >cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
- >
- >> 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".
- >
- >Well, I think that even very nit-picky comments may be valuable...
- >
- >On the other hand, if the process allows a reviewer to *prevent a package
- >from being posted* on the basis of minor quibbles, that is a big problem...
-
- I can speak from personal experience since I've reviewed a few packages.
- What I've tried to do is separate the nits from the major items and to
- follow the voting guidelines that are the same as what we use for walkthrus
- BTW ->
-
- Would you suggest that this submission:
-
- - be accepted for posting as is
- - be accepted after minor revisions (that you have detailed)
- - be returned to the author with a recommendation to make
- major changes and re-submit
- - be rejected
-
- In one case at least the author disagreed with some of my "minor revisions"
- or agreed to make them in a future release but I said ok the second time
- anyway.
-
- If one reviewer was being overly finicky, I think the process would still
- work fine since other reviewers would balance the one holdout.
-
- Actually I think the biggest problem is getting enough reviewers with
- time and interest to check some software out. I've seen 2nd and 3rd
- call for reviewers for some packages and have felt guilty that I did
- not have time to lend a hand.
-
- So if you've got time and interest sign up and help the process! If you
- think people are too nit-picky, sign up and be more accepting of minor
- stylistic differences! Reviewing is a democracy as far as I can see!
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- Jerry M. Carlin (510) 823-2441 jmcarli@srv.pacbell.com
- Alchemical Engineer and Virtual Realist
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