CALL FOR VOTES -- comp.sources.reviewed

[Dave Hanna]

In article <1991Feb28.160555.8446 at sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent at sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:
>In article <1991Feb28.053121.7739 at rick.doc.ca> andrew at calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
>>This is an official Call for Votes for the proposed newsgroup
>>"comp.sources.reviewed".  

>Question: This whole thing seems to have started as an emotional reaction
>to delays in postings to c.s.unix. What are the expected time delays in
>submissions through this group ??  Just the setup to evaluate a package
>by your description is going to take a bit of time. The review by multiple
>people will take time. [ Even the reviewers have real jobs... :-) ] If
>there are any questions, problem etc., that will take more time.  My
>guess is that you are looking at a 45 to 60 day delay on the optimistic
>side.

45 to 60 days sounds like a reasonable guess.  What are delays running
through comp.sources.unix now?

I want to be careful how I come into this debate.  I appreciate the job
that Rich $alz is doing, and that it's a tough job.  I also appreciate
that the comp.sources groups are not an "inalienable right" to which
I am entitled, and am thankful for what does come out of them.

On the other hand, I can appreciate the frustration of authors [and
potential users] of a piece of software that submit it to comp.sources.unix
and then wait for seemingly interminable and unpredictable periods of time
and see nothing come out.

I don't know what the actual delays from submission to posting are,
because Rich doesn't choose to tell us what has been submitted and
is in the queue.  I know the monthly posting for Elm says that several
patches have been submitted to comp.sources.unix, and that none
have yet appeared.  I've been using Elm for at least six months,
and it was at patch level 6 when I started, so I would guess that
some of those patches have been in the queue for many, many months.
(And they have been beta tested before they are submitted.)

The point of this is, if we can get a mechanism that will produce
archiveable sources with a fairly predictable 45-60 day delay, I'm
all for it.
>			-Kent+
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