Am 06.04.2011 03:29, schrieb Richard Jones: >> So 96% of packages have no ratings. Only 1% have more than one rating. >> >> I ask again, how is this useful? >> >> Django, with 7 ratings, is in the 99.9th percentile among all >> packages, so if anyone could find this useful I suppose it might be >> me. But 7 ratings isn't in any way a significant sample: PyPI shows >> 11,000 downloads of Django 1.3 alone (which is just a few weeks old); >> there's no *way* this provides *any* useful data whatsoever. > > 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. And we could all be doing far more interesting things.
That seems to be a logical conclusion to me. The only thing I would keep is (if enabled for the package) the comment form, but only to give feedback to the package author(s). Georg _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
