From: vruz <horacio.lopez@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T11:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & The Problem with Ruby

> I guess what I'm saying is that when you're getting somebody to do
> research on a library for the sake of a project like RPA, they have to
> be extremely motivated to be able to use it long enough to have a solid
> opinion on it. Whereas if you can find somebody who is actually _using_
> that library to make their job easier, to work a little easier to put
> food on the table, their opinions will be richer and researched with
> more depth. So maybe initial efforts to reveal what projects are high
> quality could start with that information.

And that's exactly what we did.

http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?PackageAdvisor

Of course this is work in progress, but I believe this aligns well
with the ideas you expressed.

cheers,
                        vruz