> Yada yada yada. Could go on for a while, but I won't. Let's hear about > you! :-D
I'm interesting in Gump's viewpoint on OSS projects, and their interactions, and I want to work on how that viewpoint can be leveraged. I care about presenting this simple metadata in as many ways as valuable, from different perspectives. I thought I wanted mathematical perspectives alone, but I've become convinced that visual representations would be even better. I would like to see Gump scale to many more projects, to create some map of core OSS (folks can use google to find/evaluate more obscure ones.) I don't want to see the 'rich get richer', and have folks focus in on the main projects, but I'll accept that risk because I think folks deserve insights into projects. I don't want OSS to be a crap shoot, I want some objective insights when I chose to depend/rely upon somebody else (and invest my energy in learning their solution.) For example, I hear that forrest uses cocoon uses avalon, but even as close to Gump metadata as I am (and however I see dependency tables), I don't really understand "how much", or "what aspects". If I hear something is being de-emphasized, I can't judge how this might ripple up to what I do. I would love a visual graph of dependencies, perhaps with line thickness annotating how strong a tie there is, etc. I want to be able to "see OSS interactions" through views created by Gump. So, for me it is all about views/insights/introspections/maps, hence I like what folks can do with a cocoon/forrest webapp -- and graphs/charts/images. Anything that allows us (perhaps dynamically on demand) to drill into this information... regards, Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
