[boost] blincubator comments

Subject: [boost] blincubator comments
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-19 11:37:14

Hi Robert,

First of all, great idea and thanks for doing it. The concepts are solid 
and the site will be a great help for users and authors alike.

It appeared that it was not possible to add any reviews anonymously. Is 
this by design? Does one have to register? It would be clearer if the 
page was unavailable or that there was a placeholder requiring the 
visitor to register before they could view the "submit review" page[1].

I closed the page after writing a review and being unable to submit 
because it seemed the site was buggy and so I set out to submit a 
report, but maybe the mistake was that I was supposed to have registered 
first. It was unclear.

Also, if you ever do consider writing another version, consider Django 
because the admin interface[2] could allow you to generate a nice 
interface without futzing around with plugins and can also help you 
create a more maintainable site because it forces you into a structure. 
I'd be happy to help if you choose to go this way.

General question: are there any other sites/applications of this kind 
out there? It seems to be a generally useful thing to make it easier to 
solicit user contributions for open source software. The closest would 
be a fork+pull request in Github that people can comment on. Maybe 
that's enough, I don't know.

[1] http://rrsd.com/blincubator.com/review/?library_post_id=769
[2] http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter06.html

Sohail