[ILUG] what's wrong with freshmeat/slashdot

[Waider]

(Your Monday Morning Pointless Rant, skip if you're feeling mellow)

At some point last week, while tooling around, I produced a shell script 
of a dozen lines to approximately graph dependencies in RedHat. Which I 
posted to ilug: http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2002-July/048423.html

I've since tweaked it to actually do the job properly (as the set of RPM 
flags I chose is a little incorrect) so it's now an 80-line shell script 
which I'm sure anyone else with an inquisitive nature and a little free 
time could produce.

However, I do /not/ for one second think it's worthy of a slashdot 
article: 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/29/0331226&mode=thread&tid=156

or a FreshMeat project:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpmgraph/

And this, I think, in nutshell, is what's wrong with freshmeat (some 
might say it's what's wrong with slashdot, but I'm not going there) - 
the tendency, despite their posted guidelines for accepting projects, to 
flood their database with worthless crap that should be left on 
someone's personal website.

I'm sure this email is a product of insufficient caffeine.

Cheers,
Waider.
-- 
waider at waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me