From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T09:11:45+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & b

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 08:28 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> Right, but "activity percentile", in my experience, is not terribly 
> useful anyhow, and possibly even deceptive. 

I concur wholeheartedly.

>  If people really are 
> interested in foo-lib and keep going there, but no foo-lib development 
> activity is going on, wouldn't that bump up the "activity percentile" 
> without necessarily indicating that the software is useful, or getting 
> better?

Exactly right.

> *shrug*
> 
> It just seems like it would be really useful to be able to tell at a 
> glance whether or not a library was probably going to be good. 

+1

> Hard to try to create a program to do this kind of heuristic tho.

So true.

Yours,

Tom