DSSS, Dsource, and cpan

[Bill Baxter]

janderson wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Anders F Björklund 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I'm not sure about the whole negative re-enforcement.  You may find it 
> scare contributions away.

Matlab has a big user contribution site.  Each project or code snippet 
gets its own page, people can rate the projects, and people can leave 
comments.  The ratings are "stars" so it doesn't really seem so 
negative.  Even if you have the worst rating you still have a "1 star", 
which sounds better than a minus anything.  In practice lame projects 
just don't get reviewed because no one cares.  Probably the only reason 
you'd get a bad review is if you promised the world and in the end your 
program just simply didn't work at all and thereby ended up wasting 
people's time.

Here's one page from there.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadCategory.do?objectType=category&objectId=131&objectName=Filtering


If dsource added the *'s rating, and a way to search for projects based 
on keywords, I think it would be pretty much there.  The download count 
on the matlab pages are kind of helpful as a guide too, but I don't know 
how you easy that would be to do given open access svn servers.

--bb