Re: Bundles in Agora

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 9 October 2012 23:48, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:10, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding your future stuff. "A bundle management system (so that
>>> users can rename, delete, and add files after creating a bundle)", I
>>> think wee need more basic functionality before this.
>>
>> Actually, if possible I'd prefer if you could NOT implement this 
>> functionality at all.
>> I'd rather have users upload complete releases of their bundles.
>> For managing incremental changes to single files I believe using a revision 
>> control system
>> would more appropriate.
>>
>> That's just me though ...
>
> It's not just you, you are right. This functionality is not desirable
> at all. It's just making easier for all octave programmers that call
> themselves non-programmers to shoot themselves on the foot.
>
> Carnë

Hi Wendy,

I am sorry I did not answer your e-mail. I haven't been getting
messages from the mailing list (some mail problem at the uni). I saw
your answers thanks to your post in planet Octave. Thank you fro your
continuous update!

Regarding your question:

> The rating/feedback functionality is a good idea. Do you have any thoughts
> on how it should work? For instance, should the rating be a number (say, out
> of 5), and should anonymous users be allowed to rate things? The more ideas
> you have for this the better!

The method I thought would be useful is the one of the "like", "do not
like", with comments (something like youtube). Anonymous users
shouldn't be able to vote. It would be nice to have a download counter
as well, this one counting all download from anonymous and registered
users. The idea is that one would be able to make a search and order
by downloads and rate. I would start with something as simple as
possible, we just need what we have in the forums.
Eventually it would be very useful to have the possibility to flag
bundles but for this we will need special users, like admins, etc...
and this is too much... like in stackoverflow... lets leave it for the
future.

Again, the simple, the better.

All this in view of considering one of the uses of Agora to
recruit/detect future collaborators.


Thanks and good luck!