Texrat certainly has made a valid point.
So DO let's start thinking about it,
and see if any ideas for further improvements CAN be found.


As I understand Texrat, he includes projects started by amateurs and budding pro's,
so here is one small comment :

Among many reasons why projects are abandoned,
or why abandoned projects are not picked up,
one could be that the code is too sparesly commented, or not clearly enough structured.
And commenting code well encourages good coding.

( One of the most popular word processors in CP/M - MS-DOS times was coded after the manual was written, according to grapewine.)

So, can that be encouraged ?
Can beta testers be encouraged to look at (parts of) the source, and then somehow give karma ?
Can karma for easily understood code somehow make life easier for the project ?

One post pointed in a similar direction by suggesting karma for good management.