On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:43, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: >> Downloads don't mean the code is good. Voting is gamed. I really don't >> think there's a good automated solution to tell us what the >> high-quality replacement projects are. > > Sure, these are imperfect metrics. But not having any metrics at all > is flawed too. Despite the huge flamewar we had 1-2 years ago about > PyPI comments, I think we should follow the lead of the many app > stores that pop up on the web -- users will recognize the pattern and > will tune their skepticism sensors as needed. >
An additional bonus of such a system is that we won't have to maintain a separate Wiki page with "popular" choices. Pointing to the PyPI "rating" page, which can presumably be filtered by tags (i.e. web, scientific, XML, etc.) should be sufficient, given that such a rating page exists. Eli _______________________________________________ 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
