Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

From: Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:09:48 +0000
Subject: Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection
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On Apr 9, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
This would allow distribution of effort among all users to highlight what packages need attention, and PEAR-QA would have instant feedback on what packages are not compliant.
Another advantage is that people will more easily be able to distinguish between "good" packages the rest by comparing the ratings.
Absolutely. At the risk of starting another flame war, the Amazon model has worked very well to help their customers filter through the huge volume of choices; a similar model applied to PEAR can lead to very good things. Dynamic feedback loops and all that. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty. http://phpsavant.com/

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