Am 27.10.2009 um 21:32 schrieb Martin v. Löwis:
Some package maintainers are unhappy with the recent addition of a rating-and-comment facility in PyPI; they don't want to see user comments on their package page (the rating itself is not being challenged, AFAIU).
For the record, I *did* question the rating feature on this list and still think it's inappropriate for a package index. As are the comments.
At the same time, I believe that users very much want to see comments on a package page, telling them whether the package is useful or not (in particular if it has received low ratings). As it is difficult to get the community opinion on this particular issue, I plan to hold a poll. In preparation for that, I started collecting arguments for both sides on http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIComments Feel free to add arguments that you think are missing in these lists; please refrain from removing arguments (even if you think they are flawed).
Since you mentioned on the SourceForge ticket (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=513503&aid=2872293&group_id=66150 ) that one reason why comments were implemented is because many people requested it:
I hereby request the feature to be able to selectively disable comments for my PyPI packages.
FWIW, I think Jacob's proposal in the ticket above is worth considering: "allow package owners to disable comments, but only if they provide a link to an alternate forum".
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