Re: Standard Queue status

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <ubshlheoj.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake says...
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>I would find it useful to have a list of criteria, so that we can
>judge each candidate by that criteria. For example, one criterium is
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>If we can all agree on what the criteria are, it will be easier to
>agree on the package design. The criteria list should mention all of

I initially produced the strawman because it looked like we had pretty much
arrived at a consensus on requirements. Building some kind of reference
implementation so that we could proceede to discuss design issues seemed the
next logical step. Of course if you subscribe to the "spiral method" of software
design, it should come as no suprise that this activity generated a new
requirement or two as well. That has happened, but for the most part I thinkg
discussions have been centered on design issues (eg: do we include an "insert
list" operation, or let the user do it themselves with the primitives).

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>Ted (or Nick); can you post this list on your web page, and try to
>keep track of votes for and against each one?

I can certianly see the merit of posting for the record the requirements to
which the strawman has been designed on my web page. But if you want something
more complicated, like some kind of line-item votable list, then I'd have to
agree with Ehud that AdaPower would be a much better place for it. For one
thing, its just a more logical place. For another, I sort of envisoned the
strawman as the community's design, coded up by me (of course I'm in the
community too though :-) ). If it instead becomes some kind of candidate upon
which folks are voting, it really wouldn't be appropriate for the author of one
of the candidates to also tabulate the votes. That's just a recipe for acrimony.
I get enough of that at home. :-)

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