GSoC 2017 Ideas!

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 16:12:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> but sorting by rating in search

I'm sorry, that was a run on sentence.

The big picture goal I'd like to see is that the package manager, 
or even a tutorial author for some topic, just take the choice 
away.

Sure, you can ignore its recommendation and look down the list, 
but it would be nice if you didn't have to; if there was one 
solid way to do what they want that is easy to find. End analysis 
paralysis.

Like on Amazon, where there's hundreds of options, but there's 
one with the five stars listed as #1 best seller at the top of 
the list, it is nice to stop evaluation and just hit buy. It 
kinda sucks to be the new competitor when the system is promoting 
the existing #1.... but meh.

You also want to avoid cheating the system and manipulating the 
results, by either established slumlords or new guys wanting a 
leg up.


If the student can solve the design problem, the implementation 
might be easy. idk how Google would feel about trivial code with 
painful design, but that's the way a lot of software work is in 
the real world sooo I feel it is an applicable project.