Rating System for Open Source Software

prostoalex writes "Carnegie Mellon University, Intel and SpikeSource are launching a rating system for open source software, New York Times says. OpenBRR 'is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way.'"

Oh No!

[AAeyers]

This could be hurtful! Everyone should be a winner!

Think of the children!

About freakin' time.

[generic-man]

If you execute a specific elisp file at a key time, emacs displays a very graphic mini-game involving Richard Stallman. As a responsible parent, I want to make sure that this sort of thing isn't seen by my children when I'm not watching them.

I applaud this rating system and wish it well.

Moderating....

[fembots]

The rating system has 11 categories, including Normal, Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Funny, Overrated and Underrated.

Each category is to be rated -1 to 5.

There will also be filtering tools so a potential corporate user can specify its most important considerations.

Re:About freakin' time.

[Infernal Device]

If you execute a specific elisp file at a key time, emacs displays a very graphic mini-game involving Richard Stallman.

I would pay money not to see that.

My eyes! The burning!

Re:Moderating....

[50m31sl4sh.]

In other news, SCO OpenServer 6 [slashdot.org] was recently rated by new system.
It is the first software ever that has been assigned ratings Flamebait, Troll and Offtopic.

1 to 10

[b17bmbr]

1: absolutely horshit. stuff i wouldn't use if paid a million dolars.

10: barely usable, requires constant tweaking, stuck at version 0.9.3, crashes occasionally, and requires three new libraries each upgrade which break other applications.