On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 23:35 Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > The page https://levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html has some thoughts on how to build a scalable, resilient trust network based on user ratings; I can't guarantee that it'll change your opinion, though! 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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