Task:Karma for applications

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This is an ongoing task, planned to be completed during the current maemo.org development sprint. Any help is appreciated!
Please see the talk page for discussion.

This task is to define a karma system for applications as a basis for judging their "quality".

Goals

  • Provide a simple, unified way for users and developers to judge an application's quality.
  • Provide a distributed quality assurance system for handling package promotion.

Metrics for judging "quality"

In no particular order.

  • Number of downloads.
  • Number of ratings.
  • Level of ratings.
  • Actively maintained.
    • Frequency of updates.
    • Bug activity (assuming a tracker on bugzilla).
  • Number of releases available for.