Vote on PyPI comments

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Nov 13 14:50:53 EST 2009


Michele Simionato schrieb:
> On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Chris Withers <ch... at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in
>> response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out,
>> there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have
>> mailing lists, bug trackers, etc for their packages and don't want to
>> have to try and keep track of yet another support forum.
>>
> 
> I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If
> somebody wants to know
> if a package is good, she should ask here.

The ratio user to posters certainly speaks against that - for any given 
package, there are so many users that never appear here - but they stil 
might share insights about the package.

Diez



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