On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 16:51 -0800, Mike Orr wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > > >> > Last but not least this is pylons, over here everything is optional. > >> > No one told you to use any of them. > >> > >> One thing that might be nice with Pylons, is if each optional > >> component had a rating system that included attributes such as: > >> > >> difficulty to learn: > >> full test coverage: > >> documentation: > >> downloads/popularity: > >> > >> It seems like a community rating system could help communicate to both > >> the author of the component, and the potential developer what is going > >> on. Like an ebay of sorts. > > > > I think a rating system is going to be deceptive, because beginner > > friendly components will always get more ratings, so they will be rated > > higher. This doesn't really match the Pylons targeted user. However, I > > like the idea of some kind of directory that would give opinions on who > > would want the component and for what. > > Numerical ratings are probably useless except in a voting system, but > a comparative chart of packages with comments about how suitable they > are for beginners and how well documented they are, could be made on > the wiki.
Yeah, that's sort of what I meant. Something that just provides a heads up for people about the different components, much like what gets seen on the list occasionally. Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
