Intention = precision => for a better PyPI On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Jesse Noller wrote: >>> >>>> Frankly, I agree with him. As implemented, I *and others* think this >>>> is broken. I've taken the stance of not publishing things to PyPi >>>> until A> I find the time to contribute to make it better or B> It >>>> changes. >>> >>> That's distressing. For better or worse PyPI is the central repository of >>> 3rd party packages. It should be easy, desirable, fun and socially >>> encouraged to get your packages there. >> >> I think his point is that a new book announcement servive is different from >> a book review and rating service. And that mixing the two is 'socially >> discouraging'. I do not know what the answer is > > I would say that publishers disagree -- they seem to really like > adding "social" stuff to their book announcement service. See e.g. > Amazon (which combines all functions: announcement/promotion, > ordering/download, review/comments/rate/popularity). >
... but (most) book writers don't use an issue tracker to manage and get *useful* feedback from their readers (I know there are exceptions to the rule ;o) and fix the book chapters or anything else . Besides there are some differences between software and books and the way both of them are created, used and enhanced . What I don't like (today) about comments + votes is that I have to do the same thing in two different places (especially because one of the sources is *very* noisy). If there's a way to integrate both and «reduce» the noise , that would be nice . ;o) > I agree that creating a good social app is not easy, and if we can't > improve the social app embedded in PyPI quickly enough, we should at > least give authors the option to disable comments. +1 > Of course, as a > user, I might not trust a module that has no reviews or ratings. > Not really sure. For example, if a user access the page for setuptools (just an example ;o) soon she/he will realize that other people use it very often and also has a high kwalitee score, therefore it is quite unlikely that such package be «irrelevant» or «untrusted» (this is IMHO) . -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
