The need for smaller protocol specifications

Brian E Carpenter brian at hursley.ibm.com
Wed Jun 11 12:27:57 CEST 2003


And see http://graybeards.net/sirs/ for the prototype solutions effort.

  Brian

Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> 
> >>>>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik F=E4ltstr=F6m?= writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks for your note - I appreciate it.
> 
> Patrik> But, I definitely think we need to talk more carefully about
> Patrik> where the review is done, and how we make sure it is done.
> 
> Serious document reviews take time (a) for the review itself plus (b)
> for the followup discussions (and in my experience b >> a). The only
> reward for such a time investment is (perhaps) being mentioned in the
> acknowledgements section.
> 
> To achieve more and better reviews, we simply have to make it more
> attractive for people to spend their time on serious reviews.
> 
> [I am repeating this statement here, which I have made in the past,
>  because I feel that the importance of this is still overlooked.]
> 
> /js
> 
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