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imported>generalantilles New page: {{task|ongoing}} This task is to define a karma system for applications as a basis for judging their "quality". == Goals == * Provide a simple, unified way for users and developers to j... |
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Application karma seeks to provide plausible "score number" for each application in the Maemo application catalog. | |||
The application karma will follow a pattern familiar from Maemo's user karma (see http://maemo.org/profile/list/ and http://maemo.org/profile/view/bergie/), utilizing various sources of information about the application to calculate its activity and importance. | |||
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== Metrics for judging "quality" == | == Metrics for judging "quality" == | ||
These are calculated using information inside maemo.org Midgard database: | |||
* Number of downloads | |||
* Number of ratings | |||
* Average rating | |||
* Frequency of updates | |||
* Number of releases available | |||
* Number of OS versions supported | |||
As well as from outside it: | |||
* Bug activity (in Bugzilla) | |||
* Freshmeat.net stats (when the new Freshmeat [http://help.freshmeat.net/discussions/questions/39-where-are-the-rdf-files-from-the-backend-directory#comment_120399 reimplements their APIs]) | |||
* Blog mentions (via Technorati, using "unixname" as tag) | |||
* Screenshots uploaded (via Flickr, using "unixname" as tag, see http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html) | |||
* Number of contributors in Garage | |||
All karma items are counted once per week, and stored so that the development of application karma can be followed on a graph. | |||
Revision as of 16:56, 4 May 2009
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This is an ongoing task, planned to be completed during the current maemo.org development sprint. Any help is appreciated! Please see the talk page for discussion. |
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Application karma seeks to provide plausible "score number" for each application in the Maemo application catalog.
The application karma will follow a pattern familiar from Maemo's user karma (see http://maemo.org/profile/list/ and http://maemo.org/profile/view/bergie/), utilizing various sources of information about the application to calculate its activity and importance.
Goals
- Provide a simple, unified way for users and developers to judge an application's quality.
- Provide a distributed quality assurance system for handling package promotion.
Metrics for judging "quality"
These are calculated using information inside maemo.org Midgard database:
- Number of downloads
- Number of ratings
- Average rating
- Frequency of updates
- Number of releases available
- Number of OS versions supported
As well as from outside it:
- Bug activity (in Bugzilla)
- Freshmeat.net stats (when the new Freshmeat reimplements their APIs)
- Blog mentions (via Technorati, using "unixname" as tag)
- Screenshots uploaded (via Flickr, using "unixname" as tag, see http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html)
- Number of contributors in Garage
All karma items are counted once per week, and stored so that the development of application karma can be followed on a graph.
