-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 P.J. Eby wrote: > At 09:45 AM 11/14/2009 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Paul Moore wrote: >>> 2009/11/13 Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com>: >>>> 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. >>> I don't want to create a PyPI account (more account details I'll >>> rarely use to remember) just to vote. I can see why anonymous votes >>> are bad, but the sample's going to be self-selecting - people like me >>> who don't want to create an account will be excluded. >> This is indeed intentional: people like you won't upload packages to >> PyPI, nor will they take part in the rating system, as both require >> a PyPI account. > > Which is bizarre, since Paul belongs to the group of people you say > you care most about - i.e., those people browsing the index and > looking for packages. The *consumers* of the comments, in other words.
I agree with Martin that anonymous votes, like anonymous comments, are process-harmful here. 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 iEYEARECAAYFAksA0aYACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4WEACfUJmt5LEFujv5xZNCl1tbDGzR CrIAoKUtK10tQVIiEbDljaHhyTssr4r5 =+UqM -----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
