R. David Murray schrieb: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 at 15:42, Terry Reedy wrote: >> 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. > > For what it's worth, I never look at PyPI. I get my packages either > through Gentoo's portage or, if it isn't there (yet), by finding the > package's home site through Google. So I'm a happy user of a number of > packages, whose comments will never show up on PyPI.
The other large group of easy_install users will also never get to the individual package pages on PyPI. Except when they have a problem, and then they are likely to only complain through the comments. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
