[Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] Zope Good/Bad News Article

[Shane Hathaway]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> >
> > DC should encourage and then force developers to be a bit better
> > about documentation. I have seen product developers put up a  new
> > product with the full amount of documentation about it being "here it
> > is... have fun." This certainly does not help all of those people who
> > want to install and use Zope products. DC can encourage better
> > product development and documentation by doing simple things such as
> > T-shirt contest for best product documentation, tip, how-to and all
> > the rest.
> 
> One idea we've kicked around is to make the eventual
> "components area" on zope.org such that component users
> can provide some +1 -1 type feedback that is incorporated
> into the way that components are listed on the site. This
> would let the most popular / best components appear at
> the top of listings etc.

The T-shirt idea has a lot of merit, though.  It would be more fun. :-) 
(and thus more encouraging)

Shane