[plug] Application Rating

[John Usher (Maptek)]

freshmeat.net has 'rating', 'vitality' and 'popularity' indicators. Not
sure exactly how they are derived though. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Onno Benschop [mailto:onno at itmaze.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:51 PM
To: PLUG

Hi all,

Over the past few months I've come across the situation where I am
looking for a a solution to some problem and using apt-cache search come
across several applications that would do the trick.

A specific example is a gui front-end to cvs, which comes back with
numerous candidates, most notably, gcvs, lincvs, cervisia, etc.

I have often wondered if there is a means of "rating" an application, so
I can select the one with the least bugs, the most activity, the best
email support, the best gui, whatever.

Does such a system exist anywhere?

Onno Benschop 

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