Re: Design pattern - where publishing?

Responding to Schluehr...

I have a question towards the publication of design pattern. Do you
know about any magazine or a repository where design pattern
descriptions in a Go4 style will be reviewed and accepted / rejected
for publication? I guess burying them on a private home/project page
among other stuff is not the best way of exposition and keeping them
private, as a "secret weapon" does not make sense to me.

I agree such a central repository would be a Real Good Idea. But AFAIK there isn't one -- though I haven't looked all that hard since I retired.

One problem is intellectual property rights. Authors of books on patterns and their publishers want to recover their costs and a bit of profit so they are not real keen on existing patterns showing up online where they might undermine book sales. Yet the repository would be pretty incomplete without the work that has already been done.

FWIW, I would like to see some standards group like OMG, IEEE, or ACM pick up the baton and administer such a database. They could protect property rights via a formal agreement with publishers by limiting descriptions of copyrighted patterns to just including the Intent and Applicability sections with a book reference. That organization could provide format standardization and peer reviews.


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