Fellows,
This issue (quoted below) is most unfortunate. I think we should
seriously think about establishing some basic rules for links to be
included in our list of "Applications". Right now there are none.
Following are a few thoughts:
What are the goals of this list?
The list is for people evaluating HttpClient: Seeing other projects
using HttpClient creates confidence. This is marketing for us. The list
is also a bit of advertisement for other projects: If they are listed
they get a higher Google page rank. The list is useful to developers:
They may find open source projects using HttpClient here and thus may
learn from their code how to best use HttpClient in different scenarios.
This creates a problem with closed source projects: There is no way to
verify that they actually use HttpClient at all. Developers can not
learn from closed source code. Still the project gets a higher page
rank. That seems unfair to me.
The size of the list also creates a problem: The human brain can not
deal with it. Developers looking for interesting projects get lost. It
is not obvious from the list if a project is "trivial" or "sophisticated".
Personally I prefer a much shorter list with high quality entries. I
would like to propose some rules such as:
A project qualifies for the list if all of the following conditions are met:
* The project source code is available online (proves use, enables learning)
* The project source code where HttpClient is used has example quality
(excludes bad examples)
* HttpClient is an important part of the project (shortens list,
excludes uninteresting uses)
The description of the entry should contain:
* what does the software do
* what does HttpClient do in the software
* how and where (packages/classes) is HttpClient being used
Please post your opinions.
Ortwin Glück
Sam Berlin wrote:
Err -- that wasn't actually spam. I asked Larry to add that section,
based on the fact that Lucene had a "The following websites use
Lucene", and he felt uncomfortable adding a website in a section that
seemed most project-powered.
Sam
On 1/25/06, Ortwin Glück <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nice try, spammer.
Apache Wiki wrote:
+
+ The following websites use HttpClient.
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