[David Mitchell]
Agree completely, Mark! Unfortunately, this particular opportunity has the following characteristics:
- it'll always be at least slightly out of date, meaning the maintainer will get hit with the metaphorical stick on a regular basis by ungrateful people (e.g. "Why are you recommending X? Don't you know Y is out? Don't you know ANYTHING?...")
Grateful or not, if they contribute/participate and provide valuable information, I'd use it.
- in order to create such a list, you'd have to be across an enormously diverse group of products. I doubt whether any <<one>> person has that breadth of knowledge, save possibly someone working at zope.com fielding obscure support or technical questions day after day
The key word there is one. Well, "person" too. Think, the net, the community.
- to maintain the list, you'd have to have sufficient knowledge to not need to use it yourself. In other words, you'd be providing a service that you yourself wouldn't need to use. That's a BIG ask of just about anyone, unless they're getting paid to do it.
Great points. Let's say there are two approaches to this: 1. One person/organization takes this on as their task to manage this information. 2. One person/organization creates a system that allows the community to manage this information. 2 seems preferable for many reasons, true? Cheers, // mark -