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Legacy Files on the Parts Tracker
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Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:28:37 GMT
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There are some files on the Parts Tracker that have
been sitting there for quite some time (well over a year).
Here's just a small group...
These Roadsigns were initially uploaded in October 2001:
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x469.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x470.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x470p01.dat
(However, their subfiles were not uploaded until
February 2002):
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/x469s01.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/x470s01.dat
These files for the Minifig Suitcase/Briefcase
were initially uploaded back in March 2002:
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/x460.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/x460s00.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/x460s01.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/x460s02.dat
These Slope files were initially uploaded in April 2002:
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/41855.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/s/41855s01.dat
The major reason I was so skeptical of the Parts Tracker (and
my major current grievance with same) is that I knew --
I **KNEW** -- that something like this would inevitably happen,
based on my experience with human nature...
The way we did things under the "old" system was, we'd amass
a (hopefully *large*) group of CAD files, they'd get posted
on the 'Web, everyone would have a couple of weeks to check
them, and then we'd vote, and *every* *file* *would* *get*
*processed*, either "it's good; send it out" or "nope; try
again". Nothing like this incredible back-log (1,400 files!!)
we've currently got.
Even if we stopped uploading new files, even if the two Admins
(Steve and Chris) devoted their every waking moment to reviewing
the existing files, it will still take (by my estimate) the
better part of a *year* to get all the files we've currently
got out the door.
I respectfully suggest that something might not be right with
this situation. (Not necessarily all-the-way-*broken*, I'll be
willing to concede, but definitely something-ain't-right)...
Unfortunately, I don't really have any reasonable suggestions
on how to fix this problem. I sincerely hope that *someone*
can think of a solution that's acceptable to everyone...
Sorry to be such a [$^%$&&###!!$^^&] grouch. :(
Thanks,
Franklin
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Legacy Files on the Parts Tracker
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| (...) I have a couple of thought on this: 1.) The numbers don't support your claims. In 2002, the first full year of the PT, we released over 800 files, over 500 of which were new parts, this is more than the years 1998, 1999, and 2000 combined. Not (...) (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | Re: Legacy Files on the Parts Tracker
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| In general, I agree with Orion that having the parts tracker is much better than not having it, and that the main problem is that there are too few active reviewers. Just as a reminder to those reviewers out there, look at the parts queue, which (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | Re: Legacy Files on the Parts Tracker
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| Thanks for the feedback. First of all, to my mind, the number of files processed and released has no bearing on the issue I raised, that there are *several* files that have been sitting on the Parts Tracker for *well* over a year (almost *two* (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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