gEDA-user: footprints -- novice`s problems

[ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:38:23PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   If I may jump in and make a suggestion...The "vetted" flag works
> nicely for this, but turning it into an integer "score" might give us
> more functionality.  Think of it as an eBay feedback rating.  For every
> different person who uses it successfully on a real board, it'd be
> incremented by one.  This would also (assuming centrally-coordinated
> database) give us an idea of the frequency of use of each symbol, which
> ought to be interesting if not useful in some other way.

A real list of people who used it, on what date, with what
manufacturer+part_number, and at what level of testing,
would be even better.  People could be listed by real email,
or anonymously (but uniquely).

    - Larry