From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-04-28T09:37:16+09:00
Subject: Re: raa.succ - independent reviews

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:52:28 +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 03:02:14AM +0900, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> It would be nice to get ruby-projects evaluated by independent
>> people. So that when you are browsing RAA, you can see 
>> 
>> 1) how well documentated a project is.  Is the documentation in
>> English/Japanise/Germane?  Is it well written, intuitive?
>> 
>> 2) is it dead/alive/abandon.. should I choose another project to base 
>> my code on? 
>> 
>> 3) is it alpha/beta/stable ?
>> 
>> 4) license ?
>> 
>> 5) maybe some text about user-experience with the package?
>> 
>> These reviews could maybe encourage people to get a quality stamp 
>> on their projects :-)
> 
> This all only needs loose integration w/ RAA.rucc. I mean that this
> would work best once we have a standard metadata format so these things
> can be extracted directly from the "metapackages", but in the meantime
> it should be possible to enrich RAA even as it stands now: this would
> essentially mean having our own Freshmeat.

freshmeat.. I havn't thought about this, even though I use it :-)
I think freshmeat is a bit bloated, hard browsable..
RAA.succ can only get better :-)

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Simon Strandgaard