Hello, Op zaterdag 19 augustus 2006 16:13, schreef Dries Buytaert:
We all know what is important, and what is not. We don't need golden stars to figure out that flexinode, cck, views, e-commmerce and image are important. There is common sense amongst developers
But we must also acknoledge that we know this because we can sense a "buzz" around a project. Someone who looks "For a CMS that allows blogging and an image gallery" does not sense that, and wll probably need to go trough the whole range of "shazamgallery (not-user-safe)", "gallery2 (glues gallery2 to Drupal)", "img assist (not for image galleries)", "acidfree (for a very specific task, not very flexible)" and the rest to find out what he /realy/ needs, "image module". If we can show such a person that "image" is the one to go for right away, that would be great. But right now, getting that knowledge requires a lot of effort for people new to Drupal.
I'm all for adding ratings, showing information about the project's health, etc. Hence my previous e-mail with the mock-up. I think such information should be auto-generated based on various metrics:
- Number of contributors - Patch queue activity - Security history - Download statistiscs - Usage statistics - Number of commits - ...
Yes. As soon as I read that mail, (it arrived here just after I mailed out my mail) I concluded that /I/ misunderstood the issue completely wrong. Sorry. When you stated that you didn't want a golden repos, I (and maybe others too) read that as: No we don't want a quality system. Hence my plead for such a quality system. I was also surprised, because (as you can read in the blog post I linked to earlier) I thought that work for such quality measurement was under way already. I was rather surprised because I thought you changed your mind :). As I tried to point out in my mail, it doesn't matter at all what we call it, nor how it looks. As long as we really /do/ have a way to see the "health" (great term!) of a project, most, if not all the issues people raised for golden repos are solved! And if we add an order-by you can list modules by healt, which is essentially equeal to what i (and I think most people) meant with a golden repos. so everyone is happy in the end :) Bèr