[Haskell-cafe] idea: ratings (or maybe comments) for packages in hackage

[Charlie Paul]

This has been proposed many times before, and each time everyone agrees
that something like this is a good idea. However, like many good proposals,
no one has put up code.

Also in this particular case, the devil is in the details. How do ratings
transfer between versions? How do you account for the effects of bitrot?

On Monday, November 4, 2013, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The following is happening to me very often:
>
> - I decide to do some work in Haskell and decide to do it using a library.
> - I go to hackage and search for some keywords, find 10 different
> packages that does similar things.
> - In that moment, I need to apply some heuristics to decide which
> package to use. When my heuristics don't end up with only one package,
> I go to Haskell IRC channel and ask people there to which library to
> use.
>
>
> My heuristic is something like:
>
> - Look if author/maintainer is well-known people in Haskell community
> that are already produced very high-quality libraries.
> - Make sure it's currently maintained(updated at least in past few months)
> - Make sure it has Github repository.
> - some other stuff like that.
>
> These heuristics are not working great, most of the time I'm ending up
> with IRC channel. So my proposal is this:
>
> Why not have a rating/comment system for packages in hackage, so that
> when I need to find a library for something I can just look to
> comments or ratings to see how complete/well-implemented or what does
> it good for etc. (for example, we have several high quality xml
> parsers, some of them are for performance while some of them aiming
> for being easy to use)
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
>
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