davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/22/90)
When I get a submission, I will send back a reply which says "Got PROG
in XXX parts. Not unpacked." This means I have it, and does not imply
that I have done anything more than move it out of a mailbox.
At some later time you will get a note saying "unpacked okay,
submitted for review." After the program has been reviewed I will either
send it out or queue it. If the queue gets long I may start posting a
list of what's coming, for now I'm just sending it out.
I have not as yet gotten the backlog of stuff sent to Rahul, but there
is a lot of stuff coming in.
About submission formats:
I am posting in zoo format, uuencoded. At some point we may switch to
some other format, but for now that's the one. I have already gotten
things in a number of other interesting compression formats, which makes
the job more interesting (.PUF???). Anything other than zoo or arc gets
moved to a PC for unpacking, repacked as a zoo, and moved back to a UNIX
machine. Only then is it sent to one of the reviewers.
Obviously things which get to me in a reasonable format get sent out
faster. Since I have a limited number of reviewers and they work at
diferent rates, there is not a complete first-in first-out effect. I
will review stuff myself if someone is taking a long time, although I
expect to be doing about half the reviews anyway.
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