Re: hackage, package list, trac, some suggestions/questions

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

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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. :-]