[Fsf-friends] fsf must rate and talk about application softwares too

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

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Kush wrote:

> I don't know any place where such information can be easily read and
> found. and these are the things which really matter for laymen to come
> to speed in the adoption of open source software in India.
> Sourceforge.net earlier used to  give a maturity rating (development
> status) for an application but it does not do so now. Even earlier the
> application software results could never be ordered by the development
> status (except for paid customers of sourceforge) It would be great if
> fsfindia or somebody could enhance the work of sourceforge by having
> some ratings and categorisation of key application development
> tools/catalysts.

Umm...tools are normally used by 'users' and 'developers'. They
constitute part of FSF (and various other FLOSS organisations/forums).
Why would you think that it should exclusively be the FSF that gets into
a rating system. I would like to know more since it appears that you
have more ideas at the back of your head and would like to put on paper
(the mail appeared to me like testing the waters).

Most application/service level softwares require testing in a mock setup
- - so do you suggest that the FSF open up a software testing lab of some
scale ?

:Sankarshan


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