Was playing around Freshmeat's user prefs, and found a feature called 'friends.' After Ian and I messed around w/ it, this is what we concluded:

[22:46]<Ian Berry> well that's useless, IM and e-mail capability

[22:47]<silfreed> yep

[22:47]<silfreed> but now we're 'friends'

[22:48]<Ian Berry> that's right, nothing is stronger then a row in freshmeat's friends table