Does anyone think we should have a slightly more bureaucratic approach to project and gem creation ?
For a rubyforge project, we do need to fill in a form. But gem creation can be done by anyone. There's no need to show some documentation, no need to justify why you've created yet another XYZ, or why its better that the alternatives.
Even rubyforge projects do not require any justification.
We've got to delete projects that have not released ANY code for X period (blank projects).
What of projects that do not have proper documentation (take wikipedia for instance, where badly written pages get flagged off).
I've often griped about codeforpeople.com where there's no summary for what all those gems are for. You have to download each one and check the docs inside!
For a rubyforge project, we do need to fill in a form. But gem creation can be done by anyone. There's no need to show some documentation, no need to justify why you've created yet another XYZ, or why its better that the alternatives.
Even rubyforge projects do not require any justification. We've got to delete projects that have not released ANY code for X period (blank projects).
What of projects that do not have proper documentation (take wikipedia for instance, where badly written pages get flagged off).
I've often griped about codeforpeople.com where there's no summary for what all those gems are for. You have to download each one and check the docs inside!