I think we all need some clarification, since we all talk about "quality" (we all agreed upon the basic things unanimously). What is the "quality" of a maven repository (in general)? Can we measure it? Can we define it?
A wiki page with piled up (even personal) opinions would be good -- whatever they are -- and later we should cherry-pick the most relevant ones to build some tooling to build these metric. And then, we could "measure" the quality of different reposes (like central) and have a list of reposes that do meet certain "level of quality" and list publicly the others that does not. We could ask repo maintainers -- just like we did with Nexus indexes -- simply to publish these "meta information" (metrics) information in their reposes, and repo consumers could decide: "do I want or not a repo of 3.14 MRQ* to participate in my build or not". Of course, persons or organizations would be able to raise MRQ just by letting it thru (and "fixing"/improving) the repo in question over some tools (MRMs are at once the 1st thing becoming obvious choice). *MRQ = Maven Repo Quality index, for example a scalar number with range 0-10 (if the "quality" is representable as such) Thanks, ~t~ PS: I am really interested, if once done, what score would central get ;) On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr>wrote: > I need some clarifications to be sure that we are all speaking of the same > thing. > >
