Re: Apples and oranges (Was: Re: FC2 Wishlist Items)

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:56:35AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> same way that freshmeat.net editors QA project announcements, which is why the
> analogy is *not* apples and oranges.

I would disagree here. The freshmeat QA model seems to be "if its vaguely
literate and the web URL is right". Freshmeat is an indexing system. It
faithfully indexes crap. So 90% of the content of freshmeat is an accurate
index of things 99% of people don't care about.

Building a distribution is about putting the stuff people do care about
together properly.

> useful things, and that their existence is *orthogonal* to whatever QA policy
> a repository has.

Agreed.