[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread Christopher Barker
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 718,15

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 16:25 Paul Moore wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 15:56, 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

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 15:56, 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

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
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 in

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
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 d

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
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

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 09:13 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 18:06, James Addison via Python-ideas > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 02:11, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > I have always thought that any community scoring system should allow > > > other users to mark up/down other

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 18:06, James Addison via Python-ideas wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 02:11, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > I have always thought that any community scoring system should allow > > other users to mark up/down other reviewers w.r.t the scores presented. > > That markup should on

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-09 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 at 02:11, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 04Jul2023 17:21, Christopher Barker wrote: > >3) A rating system built into PyPi -- This could be a combination of > >two > >things: > > A - Automated analysis -- download stats, dependency stats, release > >frequency, etc, etc, etc. > >