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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

www.happypenguin.org has ratings and comments on games. They also 
categorize games and I think one is educational.

I think they the ranking and comments should be submitted using a tool 
similar to "scribe". For example, you might "scribe rank tuxrace 5" or 
"scribe comment tuxracer 'great for kids'" which either submits them on 
the fly or has another command to submit them in bulk, say "scribe 
submit ranks" and "scribe submit comments".

I agree comments should not be included in the grimoire because it would 
dramatically increase the size of the grimoire. The inclusion of ranks 
may be OK. As a preliminary test we could take happypenguins ranks for 
the games and only test the idea in the games grimoire.

Alternatively, you can choose to "scribe add comments" to add the 
comments and ranks separately or view them on the sourcemage website.

We could collaborate with happypenguin on this. I believe we should 
categorize our games according to happypenguin categories.

Some ideas.

Duane.

Cory S wrote:
> Tuxracer was the first game I installed :).
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:31:11 -0500, Paul Mahon
> <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> > We could add a section called 'Software Reviews' where people can write
> > up their thoughts and ratings on programs. The forums would be a good
> > place to do this sort of thing.
> >
> > Oh, and for children, you can't beat Tux Racer :)
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-10-02 at 14:14 +0100, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> >
> > > I agree with mathieu on the fact that the grimoires are not the way to do 
> > > this.
> > >
> > > the forums are aimed at communication, so that's the spot imo
> > > results from these discussions can be put on the wiki as mathieu proposes, 
> > > since the wiki is supposed to be more of a knowledge base than to be used as 
> > > a discussion forum.
> > >
> > > pieter
> > >
> > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:15:40 +0100
> > > "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >      > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:54:05AM -0700, Cory S wrote:
> > >      > > Hi guys. I've been thinking about this for a while and thought I 
> > > would
> > >      > > bring it up on the list to see what people think.
> > >      > >
> > >      > > As I've looked for games to install on my machine for my son to play,
> > >      > > it's been a little difficult to determine what the best games are. At
> > >      > > last count there are 258 games in the grimoire, and it's a little
> > >      > > tough to visit each game's web site to look at screenshots, etc. to
> > >      > > figure out what the best ones are. Also, frequently on #sourcemage
> > >      > > someone asks "what do you guys think of exim?" or "has anyone used
> > >      > > proftp?", and it would be nice to have a built-in way for them to see
> > >      > > that.
> > >      > >
> > >      > > Anyway, I thought it would be handy to have some kind of rating 
> > > system
> > >      > > that could maybe be stored in the DETAILS file and be contributed by
> > >      > > users/gurus/spell maintainers. That way users would know what the
> > >      > > general consensus is on any given spell. I guess that a command would
> > >      > > have to be added to 'gaze' to be able to see it easily, and I'm still
> > >      > > not sure how users could submit their ratings, but I think it would 
> > > be
> > >      > > helpful to have functionality like that.
> > >      > >
> > >      > > I also think it could really set our distro apart as it grows and 
> > > more
> > >      > > people start using it.
> > >      > >
> > >      > > So if you think that's the dumbest idea you've ever heard, feel free
> > >      > > to shoot holes in it and flame me into oblivion :).
> > >      > > _______________________________________________
> > >      >
> > >      > I dunno, it seems to me that the grimoire is not at all the right place
> > >      > for a rating system. As a part of the packaging system, I don't think
> > >      > there should be in there any trace of opinions or partiality, just my
> > >      > feeling.
> > >      > However I like the general idea, so maybe a wiki page with a permanent
> > >      > polling system could do the trick. Each user/dev could vote once for
> > >      > each soft with an auth system of some kind (gpg?).
> > >      > Eventually, gaze could be taught to use a bot to go through the page 
> > > and
> > >      > quickly give the result to a user who doesn't feel like browsing the
> > >      > wiki page.
> > >      >
> > >      > Cheers,
> > >      > Mathieu.
> > >      >
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