[Typo3-extrev] Dead horses?

[Rainer (Rene) Suthoelder]

funny turn here:

the extension voting system was dismised last year in favour of the 
extension review process - and now we are nearly back with user-based rating 
system.
and yes: in my eyes it makes much more sense to let registered typo3.org 
users rate extensions because this gives some real world feedback on the 
usefullness of an extension.

as elmar suggested: there should be some pre-defined categories, like "fully 
supports CSS", "complexity", "template system", "cacheable", "supports 
indexed search", "supports multilang" and so on.

combine this with a rating from 1-10 and collect some dozens of votes and 
voila: you have a fairly good picture if an extension could help you in your 
project...

this user-based rating doesn"t not mean that the extension review process 
should be completely dismissed, but we have the extrev project for a year 
now and nothing has happened. the reason for this: it simply takes to much 
time & work to do so on a volunteer basis. even if it would be nice to have 
an official label "typo3 certified extension" i don't see this to be happen 
in the short- or the mid-term.

so user ratings would be a great step to provide at least some organized 
user feedback at all - and this is something i really badly miss.

my 2 cents,

rainer


Elmar Hinz wrote:
> Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
>> I think a solution that doesn't rely on some few people to do the
>> reviewing is the only possible way.
>> That could e.g. be just a "rating" and "comments" functionality of
>> the TER on typo3.org.
>
> Comments and ratings are very good porposals I think. Let's exchange
> some thoughts about rating and comments.
>
>
> RATINGS:
>
> Who should be allowed to rate? Everybody or only registered people?
>
> What kinds of rationgs are possible?
>
> What should be rated?
>
> How should the results be evaluated?
>
>
> COMMENTS:
>
> Who should be allowed to comment? Everybody or only registered people?
>
> Do we provide differnt types of comments maybe with some predifend
> headers? Bugfix, features, limitations, experiences, examples, ...
>
> Can comments get the forms of threads, if people want to comment the
> comment?
>
> Where are the comments placed? Extension mainpage, per documentation
> page, in the wiki?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Elmar