Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:6577 comp.sources.wanted:15507 alt.sources.d:1536 alt.sources.wanted:986 news.admin:12461 news.groups:28279 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!texsun!csccat!egsner!ataritx!dwh From: dwh@ataritx.uucp (Dave Hanna) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.d,alt.sources.wanted,news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES -- comp.sources.reviewed Keywords: news groups source review Message-ID: <1991Feb28.221653.10062@ataritx.uucp> Date: 28 Feb 91 22:16:53 GMT References: <1991Feb28.053121.7739@rick.doc.ca> <1991Feb28.160555.8446@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> Reply-To: dwh@ataritx.UUCP (Dave Hanna) Organization: Atari Microsytems Corp., Dallas Lines: 51 In article <1991Feb28.160555.8446@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes: >In article <1991Feb28.053121.7739@rick.doc.ca> andrew@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+ >-- >Kent Landfield INTERNET: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM >Sterling Software, IMD UUCP: uunet!sparky!kent >Phone: (402) 291-8300 FAX: (402) 291-4362 >Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net. -- Dave Hanna Atari Microsystems Corp UUCP ...!texsun!letni!ataritx!dwh ...!ames!atari!dhanna