DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:28:57 -0700, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

>Anders F Bjorklund wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> You're right in the case of non-libraries. But I think the ddoc 
>>> requirement should apply to libraries.
>> 
>> Not all projects use ddoc, some use for instance Doxygen instead...
>
>Rather than get into an argument about what makes a project certified or 
>not, a 'digg' style voting system might be better:
>
>1) each registered user can vote +1, 0, or -1 on each project. The 
>project then gets a score, which is a simple sum of these.

A simple sum is not fair enough? The ratings of a good general purpose
project will be much higher than those of a very specialized project
of the same or better quality.

>
>2) a user can change their vote on a project at any time.
>
>3) votes that are over 1 year old get expired, and set to 0.
>
>One potential difficulty with this is someone registering a boatload of 
>accounts in order to shill a particular project. This can be mitigated 
>if people can, sliced by project and user, see who voted for what.