Augment the contrib tools (or a fork or facsimile thereof) to including
user-defined rankings and reviews. Forks and duplication sometimes make sense,
sometimes they don't -- but the better versions will percolate to the top.
Its a community driven thing, we need the right tools to enable that.
-eric
On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
> I really think this idea that duplication of things in contrib is bad,
> is bad (or just a red herring).
>
> For ports of big applications (python, say), the amount of work involved
> is going to self-limit the number of ports right up front. And the ones
> that do make it will self-select based on the quality of the port.
>
> As for the smaller things, I would prefer to see ten different bits of
> code that achieve the same end vs. just one. Diversity is good, and a
> broader selection of code gives a bigger field to mine for ideas and
> concepts.
>
> --lyndon
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