I just reread a good old article, "The Selfish Class",
by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder.

article link:
http://www.joeyoder.com/papers/patterns/Selfish/selfish.html

Its a design pattern inspired by darwinism. There are comparisons
between how nature gains success and survives. In fact with 
simple means my own packages can be improved a lot.
I believe others may find lots of inspiration too.

I have been browsing many projects at rubyforge.. there are
lots of violations of the selfish class:
* only few projects has a homepage.
* few distributes both zip, tgz, gem.

Looking at RAA, I find entries which are no longer uptodate,
which has unclear project description.. etc.

It would help everybody if project owners read this article.

-- 
Simon Strandgaard