[Gambas-user] About Gambas Farm

[Jesus Guardon]

Hi all

Recently at the Spanish Forum gambas-es.org, we have had a vibrant
debate about the gambas Farm and its features. On behalf of our
Community, I'd like to forward some of the questions that deserve some
discussion, in our opinion.

Questions like "What's the actual purpose of the farm?", "Should we
expect future changes on the farm?", "Are we making a proper use of the
farm?", etc. are arising out of different points of view.

In addition to these questions, some of us think that the Farm interface
should be enhanced in terms of usability, such as implementing a score
system and a comments system. I know it already has a
download/installation counter, but it may or may not be relevant enough
for the author. Also, a short comment from the users or other
developers, may help to the main dev to debug his application.

One of the most strongly discussed aspects is the convenience of a
management or supervision of the published material, looking for a
minimum of quality. It should serve as an example of some feature, it
should be written using the recommended rules, variable names in
english, have relevant english comments and good style, not to mention
correct indentation.

While some of us think that the Farm should be open to whatever type of
script, snippet or whole applications, others think that only a selected
set of them should be published after a proper quality filter. If bad
code is published massively, it will affect the gambas reputation in the
near future. We think about Gambas Farm as a showcase of good
programming practices and as a teaching tool, therefore it should be
enforced a minimum quality level.

What do you guys think about all these questions? We would like to open
a friendly debate about it.

Best regards,

Jesús