I would say that your suggestion does not take the solution far enough. I
believe that discussion is what makes a good specification, not 10 geeks
each with their own agenda eschewing others comments without reason. If we
can understand the reasons behind decisions, we can tune our app development
efforts on the current version of the spec so that it will be usable on the
next.
I have to say that the JSDK is one example of the failure of the Java
Specification system. It's the only major Java spec I know of that is not
backwardly compatible. It's starting to grow beyond the point of simplicity
and that's where you start to loose users. It's really a shame, a
technology as singularly useful as the JSDK needs to be easy to use and
eternal, the 1.0 servlets I wrote back in the beginning have no hope of
running on today's 2.1 spec complaint engines. Heck my current 2.0
compliant work won't run on the minor version upgrade to 2.1and that's just
sad.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Preston L. Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Comments on 2.2 Public Review Draft
> From: James Duncan Davidson
> > You may be assuming that the specification group reads each and every
> > email to this list with the attention that is given to feedback that
> > comes into the official alias. Unfortunately this is not the case. Mail
> > to this list gets read and possibly responded to. Mail to the feedback
> > alias gets printed out, redlined, carried on planes, etc. By using the
> > feedback alias you *guarantee* that your comments get carefully read and
> > evaluated. By posting here, they probably will get read, but maybe they
> > won't get the evaluation and care that they deserve (and which they
> > *will* get by being sent to the feedback alias). Do you want to run that
> > risk?
> [snip]
> > It's rather ironic that by trying to explain the rules of the game, I
> > pissed you (and evidently others) off.
> [snip]
>
> James, part of the problem may be that to the rest of the world the
> "official alias" looks like a black hole.
>
> I assume it isn't :), but I cannot "see" the comments I or others have
made
> in the "official" place.
>
> You might want to set up an URL where anyone could review comments already
> submitted. Maybe FAQ-O-Matic or some similar tool would be useful.
>
>
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