On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 8:37 AM James Addison via Python-ideas < python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
> 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. >> >> There are 718,155 users on PyPi -- I can't imagine that trying to figure out which of those hundreds of thousands of users you trust for reviews would be at all helpful -- it simply doesn't scale. I suppose if my fantasy "curated" site existed, and the curation group were of a manageable size, then you could do that, but the point of having a modest number of curators is that you can already trust them ;-) Honestly, I'd be more likely to go with "I can assume that projects that >> are dependencies of other projects that I already know are good quality, >> are themselves good quality". Which excludes people from the >> equation altogether, >> > I there are a number of metrics that could be used -- and "how many projects" use this projecct as a dependency" is a good one. -- "which" projects would be even stronger. And there are others. Anything like that it can be gamed, but I"m not sure that's as huge a problem as it might be -- what is the incentive to game this system? this is all open source, no one's making money, and frankly, having a lot of users can be a burden as well! Sure, many of us would really like a lot of people to use our code, but the incentives to cheat to get more users really aren't that strong. -- at least if. you can filter out the malware in some other way. -CHB > but which falls apart when I'm looking for a library in a new area. >> >> Paul >> > > Cautious +1, since PageRank did pretty well for a good stint in a somewhat > analogous environment. > >> _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/J5RH7ZGWO23APG42E6ZU5QPRXMYKJ7W4/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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