[csw-maintainers] Assessing catalog quality

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/6/28 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
> Attempting to "increase quality" based on blind application of
> metrics, can sometimes lead to places not originally intended. Even
> when there is not deliberate subversion of the metrics like the above
> examples... sometimes they subconciously skew people towards unwanted
> behaviour.  So, metrics need to be applied cautiously.

Certainly.  Does it mean that you agree that cautiously applied
metrics can be useful?  Or do you believe that there are no meaningful
metrics that can be used to assess the quality of our package catalog,
and the only thing we have to go on, is people's opinions?

Maciej