1,392 people rated my project as having 1 star for documentation. I've made documentation better. A few people have now rated it four stars while some still believe it's one star and don't see the point of changing their votes from one star to one star.
I think it's a great idea to show users what parts of a project are weak (it'd help them understand how they can help), but I have the same problem with reviews on Apple's app stores, Android Market, Amazon, etc...
Some of those are handled a bit by the complaints being about previous versions, but stuff on github isn't necessarily versioned.
I guess I am skeptical that a "star" rating could ever be meaningful for Github projects. Frankly, the whole thing seems like a bust regardless if you have a thousand reviews; what kind of meaningful information could you get from a thousand reviews all talking about different versions, different use cases, different kinds of "quality"?
However, for the majority of long tail projects that might have a couple pages worth of reviews, it would be useful feedback, and the project owner could address each review individually with ease.
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1,392 people rated my project as having 1 star for documentation. I've made documentation better. A few people have now rated it four stars while some still believe it's one star and don't see the point of changing their votes from one star to one star.
I think it's a great idea to show users what parts of a project are weak (it'd help them understand how they can help), but I have the same problem with reviews on Apple's app stores, Android Market, Amazon, etc...
Some of those are handled a bit by the complaints being about previous versions, but stuff on github isn't necessarily versioned.
I guess I am skeptical that a "star" rating could ever be meaningful for Github projects. Frankly, the whole thing seems like a bust regardless if you have a thousand reviews; what kind of meaningful information could you get from a thousand reviews all talking about different versions, different use cases, different kinds of "quality"?
However, for the majority of long tail projects that might have a couple pages worth of reviews, it would be useful feedback, and the project owner could address each review individually with ease.