Agreed. Done right, I think there's a PhD in this area for a student who likes to build and measure systems, including social networking measurements.
Robby and I had a grant that kind of was a seed for this direction: equip planet libraries with contracts and see how it pressures others to write down contracts at the boundary. Too much work, too little time killed this project in a way though Robby did add a good amount of infrastructure to Planet. On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I think we can and must improve the browsing, searching, rating, etc > parts of PLaneT. There's no shame in copying Hackage, CPAN, etc on > these areas because they are probably very wise in their decisions. > > I would like to make DrDr build and test every PLaneT package on some > basis (perhaps when the version number changes), but I'll have to make > DrDr capable of running untrusted code to do that and there's the can > of worms related to system dependencies. > > Jay > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >> If this hasn't come up yet here, please do take a look at >> >> >> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/there-are-a-hell-of-a-lot-of-haskell-libraries-now-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-it/ >> >> I am sure we will face this kind of problem one day and we might be able to >> prepare ourselves a bit. >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://teammccarthy.org/jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
