[Catalog-sig] Please turn off ratings

[John J Lee]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

>> It seems to me that, given we're quite a long way into the potential
>> user adoption of this feature, it's simply not being used. I would
>> support removing it, as it seems that the only purpose it serves is to
>> antagonise.
>
> Thanks for your advise. I (now) believe this is a reasonable action
> to take, even though I really dislike not being able to defend what
> I believe is in the interest of the PyPI users.

Before this thread gets even longer: project release pages on the 
pypi.python.org website now say:

"""
The rating feature has been removed. See catalog-sig for the discussion of 
this removal.
"""


John