On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:27:53AM +0530, Venky wrote:
> Okay, I lied about letting it drop! :)
:)
> > > Fair enough. I'd just be a little concerned about the novice user
> > > who might not be qualified to make this judgement. Anyway I've made
> > > my objections clear. If the rest of the folks feel this is not
> > > relevant or important, I'll just let it drop.
> >
> > A novice user is not qualified to make any judgement about the quality
> > of any software they may download (and they probably download lots, and
> > lots of software every day, mostly in the form of JavaScript and Flash).
>
> They run in sandboxes.
Because those aren't useful for DDoS ;)
> > Personally, I would like /contrib to recommend submissions of source
> > code in the form of diffs + build Makefiles + URL of source + digest of
> > such source.
>
> I would like this to be mandated and supplied as a standardized
> build recipe. (Exceptions can, of course, be made on a case-by-case
> basis. It does not need to be set in stone.)
If you have a rating/voting system, who cares?
> > And I'd like for there to be a way in which others can tag /contrib
> > submissions ("I reviewed this and it looks good," "this is crap") --
> > vote, if you like.
>
> I would certainly like that, though without examining the source,
> I don't think this is of much value.
Examining someone's small diffs to something like, say, BIND, may not be
a big deal. Examining all of a large FOSS project's soruce *is*.
Whichever you're for requiring, the result would be more akin to the SFW
consolidation (which we already have) than to a free-for-all /contrib.
Nico
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