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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The thruput of PG US, with TIFF scan, Distributed Proofreading, and file formatting is now pushing 2 years on average. Quite frankly, I have given up on them from a contribution sense. I have 10 volumes that I am going to convert to e-book myself, and post on PG Austrialia, which is less fussy.
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No complaint about Greg, he doesn't make the system. But it's gotten extremely slow.
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Ralph Sir Edward: No no no, you don't understand how radio works!
Their
throughput is quite astonishing. It's the
latency that's made you give up.
Throughput, in this context, is the rate at which they provide proofed, formatted pages to PG. And that rate is quite high.
Latency, by comparison, is the time it takes any particular book to make it through the entire process. If you want to improve DP's throughput, just get in there and proof pages. But if you want to improve latency for a book, you need to (1) get in there and volunteer; (2) work your way up to a level that lets you contribute to the stage at which the book you care about is stalled; and (3) work on moving that particular book forward. It's quite straight-forward, really, but takes a bit more effort.
Xenophon
P.S. In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that my sister is one of the folks who "runs" DP (inasmuch as such a loosely knit organization can be said to be "run," that is).