Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-15 Thread Michele Simionato
On Nov 15, 5:17 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:53:05 -0800, Michele Simionato wrote: I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If somebody wants to know if a package is good, she should ask here. Because unlike

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If somebody wants to know if a package is good, she should ask here. Because unlike people writing comments, people here are never incompetent, misinformed, dishonest, confused, trolling or just wrong. But sometimes

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Nov 15, 9:21 am, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If somebody wants to know if a package is good, she should ask here. Because unlike people writing comments, people here are never incompetent,

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:53:05 -0800, Michele Simionato wrote: I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If somebody wants to know if a package is good, she should ask here. Because unlike people writing comments, people here are never incompetent, misinformed, dishonest,

Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Apologies for the cross post, but I'm not sure this has received the publicity it deserves... PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out, there's been a backlash from package maintainers

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Michele Simionato
On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out, there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have mailing lists, bug

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out, there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have mailing lists, bug trackers, etc for their packages and don't want to have to try and

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michele Simionato schrieb: On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out, there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have