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who should rate? info from http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=211048#p211048
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The rating system gives an aircraft a 0–5 score in four areas - ''[[FDM]]'', ''systems'', ''cockpit'' and ''external model''. These ratings can then be encoded in the aircraft -set.xml file from where they can be picked up by launchers, web pages etc. The sum of the scores in the four criteria provides an overall 0–20 score, which can be mapped to a textual overall aircraft status. | The rating system gives an aircraft a 0–5 score in four areas - ''[[FDM]]'', ''systems'', ''cockpit'' and ''external model''. These ratings can then be encoded in the aircraft -set.xml file from where they can be picked up by launchers, web pages etc. The sum of the scores in the four criteria provides an overall 0–20 score, which can be mapped to a textual overall aircraft status. | ||
== Who rates an aircraft? == | |||
It is the responsibility of the aircraft maintainer/developer if there is an active one. The rating system was specifically setup to be easy for the aircraft maintainer/developer to do because it assumes that the person doing the rating is very familiar with both the real-life aircraft specifications and systems and knows how close the model is to those. The procedure is very brief, more so any update. | |||
It is possible for the third party to do the rating but it is a nontrivial undertaking for someone who is not intimately familiar with the real-life aircraft specifications and the FDM that would require a lot of time and effort at least for any aircraft that was at a somewhat advanced state of development. Of course early development phase aircraft would be easier to rate since the criteria for those levels does not require so much aircraft specific knowledge. Most of the unrated aircraft are probably unmaintained and many of them are probably aircraft that will end up with lower ratings if they are rated. | |||
If one plans to add ratings to an aircraft, a good plan is the following: | |||
#Try to locate the maintainer by pinging the devel [[mailing list]] and also asking on the forum. If there is a maintainer nicely ask them to rate their aircraft. | |||
#If there is a maintainer but he/she is unable or unwilling to rate the aircraft ask permission to do the work. If you get permission then make the change and ask for it to be merged into the base package. | |||
#If a maintainer can not be located or the aircraft is known to be abandoned do the rating and ask for the change to be merged into the base package. | |||
== Rating criteria == | == Rating criteria == | ||