[Catalog-sig] Can the 'score' system be explained on PyPI?

Richard Jones richard at python.org
Fri Apr 8 02:56:24 CEST 2011


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:17 AM, René Dudfield <renesd at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the relevance score.  Or how relevant pypi thinks the results are to
> your search query.  It could easily be mistaken for other meanings though as
> you suggest.  It's kind of common on some websites search features.
>
> Another fix could be: s/Score/Relevance/g

I have chosen the even less "score"-like term "weight" and copied the
explanation text to the footer of the page.


     Richard


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