That would be very useful for us product developers, to know what people are
really using!  Even a download counter, rating system, etc....

on 4/30/02 2:45 AM, Milos Prudek at milos.prudek@[...].cz scrivened:

>  An idea for new.zope.org: encourage people not to abandon popular projects.
>  
>  Even very useful and well know Zope products get abandoned. Consider
>  LoginManager.
>  
>  Both SourceForge and Freshmeat introduced rating according to
>  "activity", which is probably the frequency of releases.
>  
>  This may not work 100% (some people may prefer to download software with
>  lower frequency of releases as it may be deemed more stable) but it's a
>  start.
>  
>  A more drastical approach would be tagging products that have not had a
>  release in six months as "abandoned" in red typeface. Such products
>  would stand out in a list of products, perhaps forcing the author to
>  come out and say whether the product is doscontinued, but it would
>  definitely make users better informed about the product status. Another
>  approach would be to mark products "may be abandoned" if no release was
>  published in six months, and "abandoned" if no release in 12 months.
>  
>  Just my idea. Propose something softer or harder, but IMHO some solution
>  should be implemented.



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