Re: RANT: posting IDs more often -- more is better -- why are we so shy?

Joe Touch <touch(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
    > FWIW, industry often doesn't let out ideas until filing preliminary
    > patents, which has a similar effect.

    > AFAICT, the speed of an -00 is more tightly correlated to the
    > motivation for the document.

Good point, but tell me why -01 and -09 and -17 don't come out faster?
If it's because the authors are busy, and aren't working on that document,
that's fine.  But I'm seeing some kind of shyness to putting new versions out.

Is there a distrust of documents which have "too many" revisions?
I consider that often a good sign!

Should the beautiful history bar in the datatracker, have some measure of
changes?  Would graph of lines changed (in the XML!) per revision be
interesting?   Would that help know how close a document is to being ready?


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