Interesting concept, plasmo, but I don't see any real need for it, especially since it might lead to redundancy. You see, most projects have websites, and on their site they have information about the developmental status of the project, bugs, feature requests, documentation, etc.
The development status depicts how usable and complete the project is. So, users can just share their opinions on the project website itself.
Of course, their isn't any centralized repository/website where one can check up on all applications.
Also, most of these projects have mailing lists or forum boards which can be used to request new developers to join in. Besides, the changelog has a TO DO section more often than not so it's not a mystery what the most sought after additions to the application are.
Lastly, what you suggest is something that might not be credible at all. See, if you create a website and we are talking about GIMP and I come along and say it can't do this one thing very well and crashes whenever I try it. So I rate it only 1 star, reporting a new bug. And then someone else says, I don't have that problem, and I love GIMP, it's everything I hope for and he rates it 5 starts.
The point is, I'm using Fedora 8, kernel whatever, GIMP version whatever, and the other fellow is on Mandriva, with a different kernel and GIMP. No doubt are mileages vary. So, having a repository that's not on the project page doesn't excite me that much.
But that's just my opinion.
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