hackage, package list, trac, some suggestions/questions

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johan Tibell wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
> <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Personally I think that the key innovation on Hackage would be a user feedback system, like the user reviews on Amazon.  Users can:
>>
>>  - give a mark out of 10 for a package
>>  - write a review (perhaps short): eg "a real struggle to build on Solaris" or "worked like a charm"
>>
>> The marks are averaged and displayed, so other users can pick ones with good reviews.
>
> We could also build a recommender system with a little machine
> learning. "If you liked 'bytestring' you might also like...".

... to download dependent packages. :-]