I didn't really address your point there; indirectly mine was to reaffirm a sense that not all participants may want to read the opinions of others while learning technologies, and that's why I am skeptical of the suggestions to include subjective user ratings of any kind within Python packaging infrastructure.
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 16:09 James Addison <j...@jp-hosting.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 15:52 Stephen J. Turnbull < > turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > >> James Addison via Python-ideas writes: >> >> > The implementation of such a system could either be centralized or >> > distributed; the trust signals that human users infer from it >> > should always be distributed. >> >> ISTM the primary use cases advanced here have been for "naive" users. >> Likely they won't be in a position to decide whether they trust Guido >> van Rossum or Egg Rando more. So in practice they'll often want to go >> with some kind of publicly weighted average of scores. >> >> To avoid the problem of ballot-box stuffing, you could go the way that >> pro sports often do for their All-Star teams: have one vote by anybody >> who cares to register an ID, and another by verified committers, >> including committers from "trusted" projects as well. >> > > As someone who sometimes prefers to learn independently -- even if that > takes longer and may produce unusual perspectives -- I remember learning > web development by reading the source HTML of websites. > > Maybe that wouldn't be the typical way to learn programming -- but given > the volume of successful and important software that exists in the world > today, I think that having that code and the packages that it is composed > of available to learn from would be highly beneficial to maintainers, > educators and students, and other groups as well. > >>
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