On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:05:02PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > All volunteer organisations work in roughly the same way - if you want to > get a job done, you have to *start* it yourself. Others may well join in > and help once they see that it's a good idea, but things don't get started > because someone would like it. > > [This is an oversimplification. You may be able to persuade someone else > that they also care about it enough to do it. But this is as if that person > starts on his/her own as above. Likewise someone may be able to get others > to start a new project for them, but generally they have earned this by > visibly contributing their own blood sweat and tears to something else > already.] > > No-one is stopping you setting up a ratings system.
Maybe Nadim should simply start the ball rolling by picking an interesting module and posting a few comments (+ or -) on the list and seeing the reaction. Of course there may be a problem with the on/off topicness of that for the list. Perhaps Simon Cozen's code review list is a better place, although in these cases the code review would be involuntary which probably wasn't what Simon intended. The alternative is to start a new list but that might have a larger than normal bootstrapping problem, F
