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  • From: Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • To: Cory S <fubeca AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Feature request for comments?
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:36:14 +1300

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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