From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-03-03T23:12:14+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & The Problem with Ruby

> I was never quite clear on how RPA was supposed to do this. Not to
> criticize the work of Mauricio and others, but it seemed to me to have
> a scaling problem: If you have a few volunteers trying to evaluate
> hundreds of Ruby libs, they're not going to have time to really
> evaluate them.
> 
> I'd like to see some sort of a website where Rubyists can sign on and
> then vouch for given libraries that they use from day to day. You'd be
> able to search for libs based on who else is using them--it'd be, at
> the least, a more automated way to find community opinion than emailing
> ruby-talk and asking "What do people use when they're trying to use
> Ruby with XYZ problem?"

Those are just halvedone thoughts but I wanted to write it up. If you
look for something with a high snr don't read further.

I really like a package system like rpa, and its great that there are
people actually doing the work of packaging libraries. If one looks at
the debian project, it is obviously quite scalable to seperate
upstream developers from packagers.

The voting website would be a possibility, or maybe just include the
possibility to browse the rpa package tree and make comments on the
packages?

The problem with this kind of things is that they are only interesting
while they sting (until you've got your needed libraries compiled and
installed) and then they are forgotten. I haven't used rpa or gems for
quite some time, because the libs I need are now installed on my
systems.

So an applause to the people doing rubforge - raa - rpa - gems etc...
you are very important, even though its only a short contact once in a
while.

sorry for the noise,

Brian

-- 
Brian Schr�der
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/