-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: User Reviews In Synaptic? Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:00:22 +0100 From: Bjoern Ottervik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > On Fr, 2006-12-22 at 15:13 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I started writing a little bit on this spec so I wouldn't forget it. >> >> What do you think? >> > > How do want to deal with users that are not always online? So I would > vote against an integeration in the normal user interface. > > I think that a simple link to a wiki could be a better approach: "Get > more information and user reviews of BLABLA on the Wiki" > > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/packages/b/blabla > > But you would still have to think about i18n/l10n. > > Furthermore are there already existing data pools? I know that wikipedia > holds a lot of information about open source software. > > Finally we already have got a user rating, that is quite a lot more > helpful than a voting systems: popularity contest. So only apps that are > actually installed and used regularly get high rates. You can see this > feature in the latest gnome-app-install of edgy. > > Cheers, > > Sebastian > The issue with people not being online can be fixed with a local scoreboard that is synced using anacron when they _do_ go online. Both popularity-contest and user reviews would be nice to have in synaptic, imho. /Björn Ottervik -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
