Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Hartley
On Nov 15, 9:21 am, Daniel Fetchinson 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, d

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 s

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-15 Thread Michele Simionato
On Nov 15, 5:17 am, Steven D'Aprano 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 people writing comments, peopl

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,

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Michele Simionato schrieb: On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Chris Withers 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 tra

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 t

Re: Vote on PyPI comments

2009-11-13 Thread Michele Simionato
On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Chris Withers 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 trackers, etc for their

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 wh