René Dudfield wrote:
People getting their questions answered is a good thing, so is
allowing authors to connect to users. Comments on the packages make
both of those easier.
Not really, they make yet another avenue that a package maintainer who
wants to be responsible has to check every so often to make sure he or
she hasn't missed anything.
Mailing lists are for discussions and comments, I'd prefer to use those
excellent mature tools already rather than having to worry about the
development of yet another tool that will have to overcome the same
pitfalls (most notably misuse and, in particular, spam)
Perhaps bug report links, and mailing list links would be good, so as
to get people commenting in the right place?
Yes, I'm still waiting for the variously discussed metadata enhancements
;-) In the meantime, I provide all these for my own packages, for
example, here:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/mailinglogger
> However not all packages
have mailing lists or issue trackers.
I'd argue that it's easier for people to use the plethora of already
existing tools out there and provide links from PyPI rather than trying
to badger Martin into developing these on PyPI ;-)
In short, for me, ratings great, comments bad, wish I could turn them
off before they become a problem...
A slight ironic note: we can *only* vote for specific releases, with no
possibility of voting for the package as a whole or seeing the package's
rating once a new release is made, and yet we can *only* upload
documentation for the package as a whole, rather than per release, even
though there may be great differences between releases? Feels the wrong
way round to me ;-)
Chris
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Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting
- http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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