Hello, On 05/25/2003 09:13 PM, Gold wrote: >>The problem is not quite adding a consistency rating but rather how >>people will interpret it. I am afraid that some people only value a >>style that is the same as their own even when the style of the classes >>they rate is well defined and applied consistently. > > Good point. Maybe a new sections could be added to the site. One that > covers the various named coding styles/standards. It could serve as a > resource for others to use to decide if they want to follow any of them > themselves and adding a new field called codingStyle that linked to the > actual page so when others are looking at grabbing a class that follows > a coding style they can have a quick check to see if it's something > they're going to like. > > Obviously there will need to be an option for "personal" (those that > have their own style), "other" (those that follow a style/standard not > listed (this could lead to a form allowing them to submit the style they > use)) and "none" (more than likely new coders that hack for > functionality as opposed to style). I am not sure if this is worth the trouble. There are tools now that reformat your PHP code to whatever style you prefer. I do not think it is going to help the authors to be more motivated to contribute more and better classes. Coercing them to use a certain style just to get better accepted has proven to be counterproductive to the growth of the community. PEAR is the example of that. There are many valuable programmers that will not bother to contribute to PEAR just because it mandatory to use their style to contribute. Think for instance of Smarty. Andrei and Monte use their own style and have refused to contribute Smarty to PEAR because it is not worth the trouble to converting their long time personal style, that they use consistently. Nobody needs to use a specific style to contribute to PHP Classes but I do not think it would be fair to make the usage of a specific style have a great weight to favour those that use that style against those that do not use it. >>I have added a consistency rating but I am not sure how will this rating >>will weight in a overall rating. >> >>This is not yet decided but utility will weight most of the overall >>rating. Maybe utility will get 60% of the rating and the other four >>items will weight 10% each. >> >>Maybe I should make a poll on the weights of each rating. > > > Polls are good :) > > You should run one now asking if people think it'll be useful and after > a few months run another one asking the same question with the added > option of "Sucks, dump it." :) I was willing to put up a poll in this list but it seems I can't have a single poll with multiple options, each with multiple values. Splitting in multiple polls would probably be awkward and I am afraid most people would not fill it all the way. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/saFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Look here for Free PHP Classes of objects: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
