Moderate reviews in GNOME Software

I’m pondering adding something like this for GNOME Software:

Screenshot from 2016-02-11 20-31-28

The idea is it would be launched using a special geeky-user-only gnome-software --mode=moderate command line, so that someone can up or down-vote any reviews that are compatible with their country code. This would be used by super-users using community distros like Fedora, and perhaps people in a QA team for distros like RHEL. The reason I wanted to try to use gnome-software rather than just doing it in a web-app was that you have access to the user machine hash, so you can hide reviews the user has already voted on without requiring a username and password that has to be matched to the local machine. We also have all the widgets and code in place, so it is really just a couple of hundred lines of code for this sekret panel. The server keeps track of who voted on what and so reviewers can just close the app, open it a few weeks later and just continue only moderating the reviews that came in since then.

I can’t imagine the tool would be used by many people, but it does make reviewing comments easy. Comments welcome.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

2 thoughts on “Moderate reviews in GNOME Software”

  1. It doesn’t really scale if there are more and more apps. Why not a system like in Amazon? Everybody can tell if a review was useful, and by default only the most useful reviews are displayed (with a “load more…” button or something).

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