Yes, METADATA packages should be pretty usable when someone downloads them. 
Now that we have the documentation on new documentation, packages can start 
including docs too. I wonder if we can set a minimum code coverage 
requirement, and if we can somehow also measure doc coverage for exported 
functions.

-viral

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 2:57:01 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Karpinski 
wrote:
>
> Packages registered in METADATA should be pretty usable – they should 
> generally have some tests and those tests should pass. They should also 
> have documentation. We haven't been very strict about enforcing all of 
> this, but I think that going forward we ought to be.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Luthaf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you do accept unfinished and very alpha package, I can submit one 
>> right now ...
>>
>> It won't be very usable, but I am wondering about how finished should be 
>> a package when submitted to METADATA.
>>
>> Viral Shah a écrit : 
>>
>> I wonder what the 500th package will be.
>>
>> -viral
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 9:02:45 PM UTC+5:30, Iain Dunning wrote:
>>>
>>> Just noticed on http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html that we are at 499 
>>> registered packages with at least one version tagged that are Julia 0.4-dev 
>>> compatible (493 on Julia 0.3).
>>>
>>> Thanks to all the package developers for their efforts in growing the 
>>> Julia package ecosystem!
>>>
>>>  
>

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