I like the idea of adding feedback buttons to the website (not just the PEPs). I'm not sure how much you can get people vote with that much though. Maybe just a yes/no (like MSDN does) or a star-rating (1-5)?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:48 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In order to improve workflow it is important to collect data about > the process. Even if Python doesn't have any kind of democracy, > meritocracy or other kind of political system (well, dictatorship?), > it is nice to estimate how many people are really involved in the > process of language evolution. > > For example, there is a new accepted PEP 440 which is > authored by two people (documented in PEP), and they are > are listed in credits. They definitely put a lot of work in making it > happen. Other people had less chances to monitor the progress, > and in my opinion this is the reason why handling semantic > versioning was not given enough attention - proposing to convert > versions instead of specifying mechanism for packages to > specify alternative versioning system: > http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#semantic-versioning > > But, my opinion is an opinion and it will stay so until it is backed > up by data that can put some weight to my words. This can be > possible if PEP pages allowed people with registered accounts > to provide structured feedback for PEP in a form of three metrics: > > % of text read - 0 .. 100% (approximate) > Text clarity - 0 .. 5 (how hard to understand the text) > PEP coverage - 0 .. 5 (does the PEP cover your case well) > Accept / Reject / Clarify / meh. > Optional (reason/comment): > > -- > anatoly t. > _______________________________________________ > core-workflow mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow > This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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