On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:30:44PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: > Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it > necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being > served?
I presume you mean the CPAN scoreboard? Or maybe the Kwalitee scoreboard, it doesn't really matter the argument is the same. One of the nice things about Open Source is not having to justify why someone *else* wants to do something. Someone has an itch to scratch, they scratch it, they make their work available for all to see. You don't have to do anything, so why be bothered if it doesn't serve a purpose? Another way to look at it is sometimes its useful to just play with the data, graph it in different ways and see what comes out. Maybe nothing comes out. Maybe something does. Publish the results, see what happens. Anyhow, not everything needs a purpose. Not a serious one anyway.
