"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > The poll is now closed, with these results > > Allow ratings and comments on all packages (status quo) 237 > Allow package owners to disallow comments (ratings unmodified). 139 > Allow comments, but only send them to package owners (ratings > unmodified). 33 > Disallow comments (ratings unmodified). 24 > Disallow ratings and comments (status three months ago). 88 > > My interpretation is that the result is inconclusive. A clear majority > does want a comment facility (in some form); another (not so clear) > majority wants to see something changed. > > So it might be best to implement what appears as middle-ground, > i.e. allow package authors to opt out of comments. > > Opinions?
Same as before the poll: 1. Add comment opt-in/opt-out for authors 2. Add rating opt-in/opt-out for authors 3. Disallow anonymous ratings, i.e. show the rating given by a user and some more as a result of all the discussion around the poll: 4. Allow comment without rating 5. Allow rating without comment With those features, package authors can implement most of the poll's options, except for the "only send comments to authors" which I find a bit strange, since the package pages already list an email address for this purpose. That said, I still believe that this whole comment and rating system on PyPI is not very helpful. The needed developer and admin time to maintain such a system is better invested elsewhere. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 02 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig