On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:48:31PM +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
You can even have more criteria:
- submitted for the first time - downloaded N times from download.opensuse.org - installed N times on SUSE Linux (would need some "opt in" monitoring app)
- list all reported bugs concerning this package - number of bugs submitted - number of bugs resolved - number of bugs pending - what other users think of this package - the package is 10 (high quality) .. 0 (bad quality) - comments on the package Actually you finally should not decide on such numbers whether you install a package but find out to whom packager you can trust or even to whom person can you trust if he tells you that you can trust to a specific packager. Finally there will never be a technical solution that gives you a definitive answer whether one person that looks smart is really smart or whether he is just very excellent in doing self-marketing without having any technical clue. But the fact that SourceForge is so popular shows that the concept of open contribution actually works. They host crap as well but nobody cares because everybody is free to download there what he likes and leave the other stuff alone. Nobody can tell you now definitelly how this concept works out for openSUSE but I consider trying this as being a very refreshing idea. Finally it all depends in how smart SUSE users are. We will see... And after all those statistical numbers are really funny and thus I am all for it. ;-) Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de