Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

[John Gabriele]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym
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> On 09/09/2011 02:58 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
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>>> 4) Just plain user rankings with a little vote button
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>> Python did this with their central module repository. They added the
>> feature, but then later removed it. The reasons, as I recall, were
>> mostly:
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>> 1. It was hardly getting any use, and
>> 2. There were arguments over what the ratings actually meant, their
>> usefulness, and their validity.
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>> Perl 5 has a separate ratings site http://cpanratings.perl.org/ ,
>> which is quite valuable to the community -- not so much for the rating
>> numbers themselves, IMO, but for the thoughtful comments people add
>> about a given module. It's often useful to use when choosing between
>> multiple similar modules.
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> Interesting. A common theme here is that comments matter more than
> ratings. Shall we explore how that might be done?
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I think that a simple http://egg-ratings.call-cc.org site would be an
excellent project for someone with web development skills who would
like to contribute to Chicken (but not necessarily by writing core
code). Once the site starts getting some content, add to each egg's
doc page a link to that egg's ratings page (containing zero or more
ratings/comments) at the ratings site.

(BTW, having comments right in a wiki page such as
http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/egg-name/comments might be quite
convenient, but probably futile since editing such a comments page
would allow any editor to change any previous comments on the given
egg.)

I'd suggest adding a request for the small ratings site to
http://wiki.call-cc.org/wish-list and see if anyone comes forward with
a working prototype site. I bet it won't take long for someone to whip
something up.

Also, I'm not sure what pages link to the wish-list page, but maybe
someone could add a link to it at http://wiki.call-cc.org/ ?

---John