Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:54:24 am Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > I agree that creating a good social app is not easy, and if we can't > > improve the social app embedded in PyPI quickly enough, we should at > > least give authors the option to disable comments. Of course, as a > > user, I might not trust a module that has no reviews or ratings. > > As a user, I'd be more likely to trust a module with no reviews/ratings > than one where the author disabled reviews/ratings. The first > says "nobody hated it enough to complain", the second one says "the > author is trying to hide something".
Agreed, that's how I'd feel (and it's important to note that this would be an emotional, not necessarily entirely rational, reaction) as a user also. Package maintainers who also see that users would feel that way, and who agree with the purpose of PyPI as a common repository of all third-party packages, but who *don't* want to deal with PyPI's implementation of comments (whatever that may be at any time), have a clear option: to avoid hosting the package at PyPI at all. That's harmful, and I don't want it; but I don't see an alternative for such a maintainer. -- \ “Dvorak users of the world flgkd!” —Kirsten Chevalier, | `\ rec.humor.oracle.d | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
