On 6 April 2011 18:24, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/06/2011 12:52 PM, Michael Foord wrote: > > On 6 April 2011 17:44, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> At 02:13 AM 4/6/2011 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> > >>> No, he countered with a community poll that has, as I remember, 100-200 > >>> responders. After a contentious discussion. > >>> > >> > >> A poll which, unfortunately, had numerous choices about what *kind* of > >> system to have, such that votes *against* Martin's proposal were widely > >> split, and IIRC, the difference between the number of votes cast for > >> different alternatives was pretty negligible. > >> > >> Looking at the numbers at one point, I concluded that if I had run a > poll > >> with those results, I would have had to conclude that there was > essentially > >> zero consensus about what direction should be taken, and either tabled > the > >> notion or gone back to the list to try to get more specific discussion. > >> > >> Unfortunately, the poll was run as a decision-making mechanism, rather > than > >> an information-gathering one. > >> > >> > > > > Well sure, but it still didn't show that *nobody* wants ratings which is > > what people in this thread seem to be claiming. > > > > I'm afraid that those in this thread, and with all respect to Jacob those > > who respond to him on twitter, *do* represent a vocal minority primarily > of > > package authors and are not in any way representative of users of pypi. A > > poll may be flawed however it is done, but is a much better mechanism. > > > > Martin *has* offered to do another poll, an offer that has been ignored. > > For those who may not be familiar with the prior poll, here are the > results reported to the list[1]: > > - ----------------------------------- %< -------------------------------- > Allow ratings and comments on all packages (status quo) 237 > Allow package owners to disallow comments (ratings unmodified). 139 > Allow comments, but only send them to package owners (ratings > unmodified). 33 > Disallow comments (ratings unmodified). 24 > Disallow ratings and comments (status three months ago). 88 > - ----------------------------------- %< -------------------------------- > >
Hmmm... despite claims that this poll was flawed it seems the result is pretty clear. A *big* majority of users who voted were in favour of ratings then. But I guess that is another argument. *sigh* Michael > Interpretation of those results was the subject of a huge thread, which > produced no clear consensus (at least to me). > > > [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.catalog/2169 > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk2cocQACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5rcQCgqA1G5mw21Zvz++iMM3vc63i0 > McwAoLz3aKjZ5bEg07xAcBwhHC8irMjz > =caM8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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