On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Neil Schemenauer <n...@arctrix.com> wrote: > Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> It would be really nice if say the Cheeseshop had a voting feature. >> Use PEP 10 voting to get a rough estimate of a module's popularity >> (download counts alone might not tell you everything). Then at least >> you can get a rough idea of how generally popular a module is in the >> wider community. Also, a module should have to live on its own two >> feet for while on Cheeseshop before being considered for inclusion in >> the stdlib. > > Better yet would be something like Debian's popularity-contest > mechanism (it provides opt-in voting of packages based on what is > installed on your machine). popularity-contest runs from a cron > job. Maybe when Python is installed it could ask if you want to > submit package statistics. If so, installing a package with > distutils would submit the name and version number to a central > server. > > If we knew which batteries were most popular we could make sure they > are included in the package. ;-)
Whoa. Are you all suddenly trying to turn Python into a democracy? I'm outta here if that ever happens (even if I were voted BDFL by a majority :-). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com