Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free software is not trusted software

2019-01-26 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:35:15 -0500 bill-auger wrote: > such rankings could only lead to some projects optimizing > for the "score" as to snowball it into the "leader" position; allow me to elaborate on that a bit - that was not merely a vague prediction - it already happens - i have experienced i

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free software is not trusted software

2019-01-26 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:17:39 +0100 Julian wrote: > El 21/1/19 a las 4:02, bill-auger escribió: > > one reviewer for each 10,000 to 100,000 software projects; > > So it will be worth to advice users. > There can be many ways to rank software trustability. that is missing my point - regardless o

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free software is not trusted software

2019-01-26 Thread Julian Daich
El 21/1/19 a las 4:02, bill-auger escribió: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:54:16 +0100 Julian wrote: >> It will not be simpler and eventually more effective just to rank the >> trustability of the software according to the ratio of reviewers/ >> maintainers? > so, call me a negative nancy if you will,