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

[Ivan Raikov]

  I think that setting up and maintaining a ratings site might be a bit
too much overhead, and more importantly, it will take effort to
convince people to vote (if the Chicken survey is any indication).

  How about we set up a system similar to the Debian popularity contest,
where the Debian package system maintains a record of how many times a
package was installed (which may be some indicator of its maturity and
stability).

  I think it would not be too hard to modify the henrietta script to
update a flat database each time a package is installed. Is anybody else
interested in this, or should I look at it?

  -Ivan


John Gabriele <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym
> <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 09/09/2011 02:58 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>
>
> I think that a simple http://egg-ratings.call-cc.org site would be an
> excellent project for someone with web development skills who would
> like to contribute to Chicken (but not necessarily by writing core
> code). Once the site starts getting some content, add to each egg's
> doc page a link to that egg's ratings page (containing zero or more
> ratings/comments) at the ratings site.
>
> (BTW, having comments right in a wiki page such as
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/egg-name/comments might be quite
> convenient, but probably futile since editing such a comments page
> would allow any editor to change any previous comments on the given
> egg.)
>
> I'd suggest adding a request for the small ratings site to
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/wish-list and see if anyone comes forward with
> a working prototype site. I bet it won't take long for someone to whip
> something up.
>
> Also, I'm not sure what pages link to the wish-list page, but maybe
> someone could add a link to it at http://wiki.call-cc.org/ ?