[ZWeb] [10x]Products: rating and download monitoring

Robert Rottermann robert@redcor.ch
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:56:46 +0100


If we do rating, we have to ask the ones providing the rating to add also a
verbal evaluation.
When I go to check books with Amazon I am not so much interested in what
amount of stars a book gets, but on what people say.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@regebro.nu>
To: <zope-web@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ZWeb] [10x]Products: rating and download monitoring


> Rating is extremely useful, and one of the best tools for any electronic
> community, and should really be a part of the whole site. But it gets
> complicated as heck to implement in a general and thorougly useful way.
>
> Maybe it *is* a good idea to implement rating just as a small part of the
> system first...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Hungate" <adrian@haqa.co.uk>
> To: "Trevor Toenjes" <zope@toenjes.com>; <Zope-web@zope.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [ZWeb] [10x]Products: rating and download monitoring
>
>
> > This has to rank as one of the most important sugestions I have read so
> far.
> > It probably one of the most do-able, and for my money probably the most
> > useful!
> >
> > I add my vote to this idea.
> >
> > Adrian...
> >
> > --
> > Adrian Hungate
> >
> > All views expressed in this email are those of the whole world, however
> some
> > people don't realise this yet.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Trevor Toenjes" <zope@toenjes.com>
> > To: <Zope-web@zope.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:11 PM
> > Subject: [ZWeb] [10x]Products: rating and download monitoring
> >
> >
> > Improve Pride in Authorship and Ownership
> > <dtml-separate wheat_from_chaff>
> >
> > There are some great products for Zope. But many lack good documentation
> or
> > at least a detailed description.  To a newcomer it looks like a
> crap-shoot.
> > zope.org and Zproduct-webs should use a
> >  * feedback for author
> >  * display number of reads, downloads, comments
> >  * rate this product
> >  * difficulty to install and use.
> >  * category system that shows the category on the product page
> > How about a compatibility monitoring system?  Every release of zope or a
> > dependent product asks product authors to validate compatibility.  Their
> > non-response places a "buyer beware" on the product page.
> >
> > CREDITS: ZopeLabs at least has a "rate this recipe" to give feedback to
> the
> > author.
> >
> > Almost all products lack a sufficient use-case scenario to explain why
you
> > might need the product.  You have to be a experienced Zopester or
install
> it
> > and experiment before you decide it doesnt do what you thought it would.
> >
> > I suggest these as a catalyst to improve the credibility and
organization
> of
> > the z-dev community to focus on quality and sharing.  This should make
> Zope
> > more accessible to newcomers and improve the quality of products
released.
> >
> > I will help with a "features doc" if anyone agrees.
> > -Trevor "10x" Toenjes
> >
> > </dtml-separate>
> >
> >
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