Re: RFC: Comment ation- and Rating-System für PEAR-Websites

On Wed Feb 26, 2003 at 08:4028PM +0100, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > The idea is pretty simple. Because of many PEAR packages having > no online-documentation and to complete the existing examples > their should be IMHO a possibility to leave some comments on > each package. I think the best way is to link the comments > together with the packages themself (respectively the > corresponding webpage with closer information) and on the other > hand with the corresponding manual-pages. (Whereupon we have to > think how manuals with multiple pages should be linked). Having such a system will make most developers write absolutely no documentation for their package, because they expect their users to leave some comments instead. I'm -1 on this. > Anothe idea was to implement some kind of voting- or > rating-system where users can leave a quick rating about > packages they used (something like "Did you find the package > usefull?" or "Does the package satisfy your needs?" or > something else). Maybe theese votes should be mixed of 2 or 3 > questions to fit for different kinds of usability and > usefulness. There will be a system like this which will be used during a package proposal. Once it's there, we will see if it makes sense to use this also after the proposal. -- Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/