-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sparks wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: >> "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> writes: >> >>>> Why can't we just disable it until we can come up with a better >>>> system that finds a balance between the rights of maintainers, and >>>> those of the user? >>> Because I want to wait for the outcome of the poll first. >> There's a problem with the poll's placement: on the front page of the >> PyPI website. >> >> I only know about the poll because you said there was one, and I went >> hunting for it. The front page of PyPI is not one I ever visit, as a >> package maintainer; I'll visit the pages for the packages I maintain, or >> make a specific search of packages I'm looking for. >> >> So, the poll's audience is limited to those who visit the front page >> (which is hardly ever necessary for package maintainers), and those who >> already know it exists (e.g. through this discussion thread). You'll be >> missing the opinions of those maintainers who, like the OP of this >> thread, only discovered the behaviour much later. > > This poll is only visible if you're logged into PyPI. This strikes me > as a mistake. I went looking for a poll and didn't see it. > > I only found the poll by accident by wondering randomly what might > change if I hit the login using open id button. So you can only vote > in the poll if you a) get told about it b) realise you need to create > an account to login and use in order to vote. I realise there's good > reasons for that, but I think it's a mistake. (There's no guidance > that you need to log in to see the poll for example)
I can see the information about the poll, and a link to view the results, without logging in. http://pypi.python.org/pypi (second paragraph there). That paragraph tells you that you need to log in to vote in the poll. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr825UACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ74YwCgsMU6UvoF6DZQP0If5yDV8j6J GQIAnRVGlH0onr5nQwBFYUfGl/ni0SaR =Ba00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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