Francois Gouget wrote:
I feel that the current 'Maintainers Ratings System Help' is awfully vague and needs to be beefed up. So I'm attaching a proposal in which I tried to keep the original spirit but make things more precise.
- First I'd like to rename this page from Maintainers Ratings System Help to Maintainer's Application Rating Guidelines
- I added 'Application' to the title because that's what is being
rated, not the maintainers.
- I removed 'System' because it does not bring anything.
- And I changed 'Help' to 'Guidelines' because this page does not
juse tries to help maintainers give a random rating to an application, it tries to define which rating an application can have depending on how it runs.
- Finally once the old ratnig system is removed we can remove
"Maintainer's" since there will be only one left.
- I've also reversed the order of the medals, because it seems a more
logical progression and can simplify the explanations: in order to get a Silver medal you must pass all the criterias for a Bronze medal, plus some new ones.
- I still feel there's a huge gap between 'Garbage' and 'Bronze' and
that it would be interesting to have statistics about the percentage of applications that fail to install, and those that install but crash on startup, both cases which are included in the Garbage category along with those that install and start up but are still not usable. (Chocolate and Tin medals?)
How about:
- "Also Ran" for those that install and start up but are still not usable.
and
- "Did Not Finish" for those that install but crash on startup.
These are at least slightly intuitive and stay in with the "Prize or award" motif.
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Tony Lambregts