From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T10:53:24+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

Tom Copeland wrote:
> 
> 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.

There was gemtacular.com, but it appears to be dead. Anyone know what 
happened?

It might be nice to have some sort of rating on the RF page.

Regards,

Dan