One of the examples I put in the Alfresco Developer Guide is a five star ratings widget. The example company in the book, SomeCo, uses it to let their web site users rate whitepapers published on the site. Metaversant recently took that code and implemented it in a production web site, and that client gave us permission to take the code (which wasn’t really changed that much from the book anyway) and release it as open source.

But in Alfresco 3.4 Community and Enterprise, Alfresco has implemented partial ratings functionality. Right now, it consists of the back-end, repository tier services and it is darn close to what’s in the book.

With the back end in place, I expect Alfresco to release ratings functionality in the Share front-end in an upcoming release. So, I’m somewhat reluctant to package up my ratings stuff and release it as it is partially obsolete in 3.4 anyway. On the other hand, it would give those of you on releases earlier than 3.4 a functional ratings widget, and, with some adjustments, I could make the front-end work with Alfresco’s rating service in 3.4, which would mean functional ratings in Share for those of you that have already upgraded.

If the code was ready to go, I’d just package it up and if only one person used it, great. But, the client we did the widget for was using a heavily customized version of Share–we didn’t integrate the widget into the out-of-the-box document library or document details page. That’s the last bit of work that needs to be done. Even if there is no interest, I might do it anyway just to have as an example. But, I’d be even more motivated if there were folks out there who would use it in their production implementations.

So what do you say? Any interest? Take the survey below and let me know.