Guido van Rossum 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).
I use user reviews on both Amazon and Netflix. I notice that both let
people rate the reviews (helpful or not), and I sometimes look at those
also. Both list items without the say-so of creators, though most will
tolerate possible bad reviews in exchange for sales. I very seldom see
an item with only one review, so there is usually a mix. There are also
ratings averaged across a lot more people.
Part of the pypi problem is a startup problem of initially low numbers.
If the only people who bother to log in to rate are the disgruntled,
then the ratings/reviews will be biased. I wonder how many of the people
promoting the new feature have themselves logged in to systematically
rate and possibly comment on every package they have looked at, and
thereby kickstart the system with fair responses.
Authors can often respond to magazine/journal reviews in Letters to the
Editor. Publishers tend to exercise some editorial control over reviews
so as to not make the publication look bad with grossly bad reviews.
Even on Amazon, an author could, I presume, add a response to a
factually incorrect review.
Terry Jan Reedy
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