Why the delay in posting editorials for the Long Challenge

[ssjgz]

This comes up after pretty much every contest

I did some digging for answers last time, and made a note of these comments:

Editorials - why late?

Why aren't there Editorials for every question by default?

I have been part of panel for cookoff and on basis of that I can comment a bit here. Its really tough for editorialist to get editorials ready on time, because at times problems are ready/finalized just hours before contest. In my time, on of the questions was finalized just ~1-2 hours before contest and there was nothing available except setters code to write editorial from. Keeping a deadline hence, adds a high amount of stress to the job. So editorials for all 6 problem may not be ready imm…

https://discuss.codechef.com/t/why-codechef-not-putting-editorial-for-each-contest-as-codeforces/20229/10?u=ssjgz

Editorials for May Long Challenge

Yes, tracking both the cases. @admin assured me that a new editorialist was hired, and he had written some of them already. They asked for time, I am keeping a track of it. But please be patient, with codechef organizing its workshops at summer, and other competitions going on, the @admin s are busy for month of May-June. May get some time to get back to me- I will update as soon as I get a response.

Request to put up Editorial's on Codechef's Fb page as soon as contest ends.

Latex will be highly inconsistent. Editorialist might have to make 2 versions this case- not efficient. You can check other’s solution till then- this should do for first 3 problems of cook off and first 2 of lunchtime. After that solutions need some effort to understand- but if you are willing, it can be better than editorials. Admins are looking at ways to optimize discuss to handle the load rather than temporary fixes at the moment.

CodeChef Traditions (Unoffical)

I think I can add something here. Most of the times, the setters notes are not adequate - at least they were not for me many times whenever I joined panel as editorialist. I had to go through the (usually uncommented) code and kind of bang my head in reverse engg it to see what it does. I remember once the setter’s sketch consisted only of one observation + "We then use this *insert data structure here*" + "Thus, time complexity is O(N^3)" and no details of the solution itself or how to use the…

Editorials for CodeChef's monthly contests

Does any one cares about it now from codechef team. Before throwing a contest, please prepare the editorial. You dont yet know how the contests are created- its not always possible and feasible given last moment problem rejections/replacements are common. Codechef is doomed they just care about ICPC I disagree. I am perfectly fine with contests being a bit less than perfect in December if codechef is using that time to make sure ICPC goes fine. (Now, whether some mistakes still happen or not …