[Catalog-sig] Please turn off ratings

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:56 PM, René Dudfield <renesd at gmail.com> wrote:
> a small note for anyone who wants to join in painting this shed... Please
> first see previous recent (long) thread where this was discussed, and where
> it was decided to leave them on.
>
> -1 (out of 5) for turning them off.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't find a single articulation
of why this feature is actually useful. Can you explain to me:

* What, as a package maintainer, I'm supposed to do in response to a
0/5, or 3/5, or 5/5 rating?
* What, as a user, I'm supposed to do if I see that Django 1.3 scores
0/5, or 3/5, or 5/5?
* What, as a user, I'm supposed to use as a criteria to rate a package?

Jacob