From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T10:31:31+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries


On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:

> 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

GForge doesn't seem to support rating projects AFAIK.  Could be done,  
although folks might value Mercurial support more.  I need to do a  
survey or something.

Yours,

Tom