Wonderfull
A good discussion is always welcome and was my idea for this post. And to all those hard working xbmc dedicated supporters your work
is very much apriciated !
Now back to adressing the issue at hand, "how to keep up with what scripts are good/bad"......
I have another idea that i bellive is atleast simple for both users and developers.
What if there was a button the user could push in xbmc itself, that reports the plugin as either "working", "buggy" or "not working". Together with this info the xbmc version, plattform type/version, and maybe some other usefull info is sent to a central server. From all the data that comes in there is a webpage listing all the plugins reported with all the different flags from each user. Then everything would be automatic and no user interaction would be required to maintain a web list wich will be updated at all time from all the thousends of reports coming in.
Then from this list it would be easy to automaticly rate plugins from percentages of reported working non working. Offcourse there will be some
"wrong" reports coming in due to other user errors but no matter what if a plugin is reported on that page with a sucess rate of 90% based on statistics from say 3000 people i would my self bellive that plugin to be good.
If another plugin had an sucess rate of 10% based on reports from 3000 user i would not bother to download/install it.
Ofcourse someone could then once a week check this list and remove those with least sucess rate during a given period.
Is this duable ?