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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
- Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Sep1103448@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 09:34:48 GMT
- References: <22604.Aug103.47.2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
- <1992Aug11.225255.22760@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: nolan@tssi.com's message of 31 Aug 92 19:56:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.195638.15376@tssi.com> nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan) writes:
- If success is only to be measured in terms of published output, this
- is ignoring one of the functions of c.s.r--to improve the quality of
- the programs that are released through it. I don't have the formal
- numbers, but I think fewer than 50% of the packages reviewed by c.s.r
- have passed muster. (A number never even got to the reviewing stage because
- they failed to pass a simple 'sanity' check.)
-
- And some never even got the the reviewing stage because a qualified
- reviewer could not be found. (Guess who this happened to :-)
-
- bevan
-