From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fdc75443ea18fb32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-29 10:37:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <%QRM7.39743$xS6.65958@www.newsranger.com> <9u0qhb$pq5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9u0ujd$rhg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Standard Queue status Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:37:38 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:37:38 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17178 Date: 2001-11-29T18:37:38+00:00 List-Id: In article , Stephen Leake says... > >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 . >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). . >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. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.