gouders@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Nikolaus Gouders) (05/01/91)
CALL FOR VOTES for comp.lsi.testing (was: comp.lsi.cat)
SUMMARY:
Newsgroup: comp.lsi.testing
Yes votes to: yes@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
No votes to: no@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
Voting period: May 1st, 1991 through May 21st, 1991 (inclusive)
STATUS:
unmoderated
CHARTER:
This newsgroup is intended to cover all aspects of the testing of
electronic circuits such as (but not restricted to)
* Testing of Digital and Analog Devices
* Automatic Test Pattern Generation
* Fault Modeling and Fault Simulation
* Design for Testability
* Scan Design and Built-in Self Test
* PCB-Test and Boundary Scan
* Design Verification
Important topics are (again not restricted to)
* Announcements (conferences, workshops, special issues)
* Books on testing
* Standards
* Tools
* Benchmarks
* Questions and answers
* Discussions concerning technical or algorithmic problems
WHY A NEW GROUP:
The ever increasing number of publications on testing shows a
vivid and growing interest in that subject. A newsgroup on
testing will stimulate and accelerate the exchange of related
information among interested network users. It makes it easier
to recognize current trends in testing, especially
for novices.
The discussion period showed a general agreement on the theme.
Our first proposal for the name of the group was comp.lsi.cat,
which is similiar to comp.lsi.cad. A number of contributors
remarked that this name is not generally understandable or
misleading. Among the proposed alternatives were:
comp.lsi.test, comp.lsi.testing, comp.lsi.ate, comp.lsi.ft (fault
tolerance). Taking into account that ".test" may sound like
"alt.test", "news.test" which have a specific function within the
USENET hierarchy, the proposed name "comp.lsi.testing" should be
the most understandable and general one.
Some authors commented that there are existing groups like comp.lsi
which do not have an extreme news flow to date. Splitting therefore
should not be necessary. We have never intended to split any group
due to "net bandwidth", comp.lsi.testing is a new thread. A closer
look at comp.lsi[.cad] shows that these groups are mostly design oriented,
and this probably raises the level for participation of non-designers.
Shortly: there was and is no forum for testing yet.
SCHEDULE OF THE VOTE
The voting period begins on Wednesday, May 1st and ends at (including)
Monday, the 21st.
Everybody is allowed to send one and only one vote for (YES) or against
(NO) comp.lsi.testing. All votes reaching the addresses described below
during the voting period will be counted. Votes arriving not during the
period, duplicate votes, votes containing additional comments ("I
would vote YES, but...") are VOID.
HOW TO VOTE
Please send your vote to one of the following addresses:
YES votes to:
yes@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NO votes to:
no@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
Please put your vote in the subject of the mail-header. Format:
Subject: YES comp.lsi.testing or
Subject: NO comp.lsi.testing
Your mail MUST contain an e-mail adress to contact you (e.g. a .signature)
to allow verification of the results.
DO NOT SEND ANY VOTE TO A NEWSGROUP (for instance the group where you read
this call for votes).
RESULTS
After the end of the voting period, the voting results will be published
in the newsgroups "news.groups" and "news.announce.newgroups" including
names, e-mail addresses and votes of the voters.
To create the newsgroup "comp.lsi.testing" it is necessary that there
are at least 100 more YES than NO votes, and there must be a 2/3 majority
of YES voters.
PUBLICATION
This call for votes is being sent to
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.lsi
comp.lsi.cad
comp.simulation
comp.lang.vhdl
and some e-mail addresses.
You may freely distribute, translate, republish, crosspost etc. this
article as long as the parts SCHEDULE OF THE VOTE and HOW TO VOTE
remain unchanged and the names of the authors are included.
Please send us your vote soon!
The authors:
Nikolaus Gouders (gouders@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de)
Holger Veit (veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de)
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