From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T10:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RubyForge already has an Advogato style rating system for developers,
> I can't remember if it's enabled or disabled by default, but it's
> optional.  I think it *should* be optional, but it does allow people
> to rate each other on a few different metrics.

Rating *developers* is far less useful in the grand scheme of things.
Rating *projects* on the other hand lets users solve the "searching
for foo returns 20 hits - which one do I want" problem

martin