RFD: remove comp.sources.reviewed moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
Jim Riley
remove comp.sources.reviewed
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) to remove the moderated
newsgroup comp.sources.reviewed.
PROCEDURE:
The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
The full (draft) group removal procedure is documented here:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:rmgroup
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
There were no comments made.
RATIONALE: remove comp.sources.reviewed
The last approved message was in October 1994.
There are other more suitable means of distributing program sources,
so comp.sources.reviewed is not a suitable candidate for conversion to an
unmoderated newsgroup.
HISTORY:
The newsgroup comp.sources.reviewed was created in April 1991, with the
first approved message in MAY 1991. The charter (from the CFV) was:
"Comp.sources.reviewed" is a moderated newsgroup for the distribution
of program sources that have been subjected to a Peer Review process.
Similar to the process used for academic journals, submissions are sent
to a moderator who then sends the sources to Peer Review volunteers for
evaluation. The Reviewers are asked to provided a timely evaluation
of the software by compiling and running it on their machine. If time
does not permit them to complete a review, they are responsible for
asking the moderator to select another reviewer. If the Moderator and
Peer Reviewers judge a submission to be acceptable, the sources will
be posted along with the written comments provided by the Reviewers.
If a submission is not found to be acceptable, the submitter will be
provided with the Reviewers' comments, and they will have the option of
addressing those comments and submitting the sources again.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.sources.reviewed
comp.sources.d
PROPONENT:
Jim Riley <jim...@pipeline.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-07-06 2nd RFD (Last Call for Comments)
2006-06-26 RFD posted
2006-06-16 RFD received