Re:Show HN: GitHub Reviews – Reviews for Popular GitHub Repo...
by plurch on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:24PM
(#11537454)
Thanks for the feedback. I will add a “latest reviews” list to the homepage ASAP - some others have suggested this also.
Correct, we are not aiming for code reviews but for package quality/reputation. Hopefully the descriptions on the homepage are clear and this does not confuse too many people.
Regarding the problem of outdated reviews - I have a specific field where the reviewer can put the current version that they are reviewing (example: https://goo.gl/rWMHgB shows version 4.8.2). Reviewers can also easily update their existing reviews and bump this version as necessary. We also show the date that the review was last updated.
Re:Show HN: GitHub Reviews – Reviews for Popular GitHub Repo...
by allanderek on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:15PM
(#11537812)
I like the easy way of bumping the version attached to review. That mitigates it to some extent.
Probably a bit late for you to change since you have your domain name, but the name kind of suggests code reviews. But I don't think you're really aiming for code reviews correct? You're aiming for a kind of package reputation?
A related project shown here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481459
There I wrote a comment about how package reputation systems have the slight problem about what to do when a package is updated. A review may then be out-of-date, but you cannot just delete old reviews since they may still be quite appropriate. So it isn't an easily solved problem.