Am 06.04.2011 13:55, schrieb Michael Foord:
>
>
> On 6 April 2011 08:21, James Bennett <ubernost...@gmail.com
> <mailto:ubernost...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu
> <mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote:
> > But it seems to me likely biased, so I am not convinced yet.
>
> There is not and never will be a sampling of "end users" that will be
> widely accepted by this list. This is a fact that we need to accept
> and move past, largely because such sampling is a red herring.
>
> > An avalanche follows. It mostly consists of people who did not ratings
> > before saying they do not like ratings now, and perhaps even less.
> Surprise.
> > And there is some rehashing of the same old arguments.
>
> When I look at this and the original threads, I see a variety of
> opinions. There are people (I'm one of them) who feel PyPI should not
> be in the business of hosting a rating system, and should simply stick
> to being the Python Package Index. There are people who feel there
> could be a useful rating implementation, but that the one PyPI has is
> not such an implementation. And there's Martin.
>
>
>
> I think this is unfair and personally antagonistic. I'm surprised (and a
> little
> ashamed) at the level of emotion and invective that this thread has raised.
Well, let's just find James' packages on PyPI and give them all a negative
rating :)
Seriously, as a lurker here I'm surprised at the lack of conduct, even if the
topic is emotional. (How can a rating system be emotional, anyway? There's
not even any graphical stars about whose color we could argue. I'm sure
Django can cope with a negative vote.)
> A possible alternative: allowing users to "star" or "like" projects they find
> particularly useful. Either with or without their name being attached to their
> response. ("Jacon Kaplan-Moss and 47 other users liked this project" for
> example.)
Great. PycebookPI anyone? :)
cheers,
Georg
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