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- From: markd@werple.pub.uu.oz.au (Mark Delany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
- Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.005417.20369@werple.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 00:54:17 GMT
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- tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) 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; I would
- >certainly want to hear every suggestion that the reviewers might have
- >(assuming they are knowledgeable people :-). So I don't want the reviewers
- >to feel that they can't say "I don't like the way he did that".
-
- Of course, both points of view have merit.
-
- Perhaps the problem is that c.s.r is being asked to be too many things
- by too many people and suffering as a consequence?
-
- >Of course, the whole point of c.s.r is to post only software that meets a
- >standard of quality defined by the reviewers. I'm just wondering if the
- >standard is currently set a little too high, or if there is maybe not enough
- >flexibility in the process to accommodate reviewers' opinions versus
- >authors' opinions.
-
- Assuming differences of opinions aren't a problem, keep c.s.r's
- quality requirements as is. Nothing can help quality more than having
- a premier review group that people aspire to post to.
-
- Perhaps what *is* needed is an intermediate group that help packages
- evolve to a quality level required by c.s.r.
-
- Hopefully comp.sources.testers will become that ideal intermediate
- group. It will especially help first-time posts as, in general, they
- are far too vulnerable to substantial changes to be suited to c.s.r.
-
- Who knows, if c.s.testers is a success. Perhaps the quality
- requirements of c.s.r can be raised over time!
-
-
- Regards,
- Mark D.
-
-
- PS. What a pleasant surprise that most of this discussion is trying to
- be productive.
-
-
- --
- Mark Delany markd@werple.pub.uu.oz.au
-