Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

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On 09/09/2011 02:58 AM, John Gabriele wrote:

>> 4) Just plain user rankings with a little vote button
>
> Python did this with their central module repository. They added the
> feature, but then later removed it. The reasons, as I recall, were
> mostly:
>
> 1. It was hardly getting any use, and
> 2. There were arguments over what the ratings actually meant, their
> usefulness, and their validity.
>
> Perl 5 has a separate ratings site http://cpanratings.perl.org/ ,
> which is quite valuable to the community -- not so much for the rating
> numbers themselves, IMO, but for the thoughtful comments people add
> about a given module. It's often useful to use when choosing between
> multiple similar modules.

Interesting. A common theme here is that comments matter more than
ratings. Shall we explore how that might be done?

> (As an aside, Perl also has a separate automatable "rating" mechanism
> which computes a given module's "kwalitee". This is a module that
> examines a module and looks for signs of possible quality: for
> example, Is there a readme? Is there documentation? Are there tests?
> etc.  See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Test::Kwalitee and
> http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html for more info. Dunno whether or
> not something like this would be useful for checking eggs with.)

That sounds quite doable, too! For chicken eggs, the obvious things are:

 * Has a release tagged
 * Has a tests/run.scm
 * Has an actual wiki page with docs in

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