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There are types to describe this graph. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thing > CreativeWork > SoftwareApplication</p>
<p dir="ltr">CreativeWork.comment r: [Comment]</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication">http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication</a><br>
<a href="http://schema.org/Comment">http://schema.org/Comment</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">( #PEP426JSONLD because this is a graph of SoftwareApplication(s); now with TOML metadata )</p>
<p dir="ltr">There could be edge types as well. e.g. what is the relation between PIL/Pillow.<br>
- maintainerSuggests<br>
- communitySuggests<br>
- communitySaysUnmaintained<br>
- unaddressedVulns<br>
- etc</p>
<p dir="ltr">Adding an embedded JS comments widget does/would add some additional maintenance burden (because user-generated content).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Authors can specify an email address as structured data; and whatever they consider relevant in the long_description.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 13, 2016 9:33 PM, "Steve Dower" <<a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org">steve.dower@python.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">On 13Jul2016 1456, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:<br>
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On Jul 13, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Steve Dower <<a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org" target="_blank">steve.dower@python.org</a><br></div><div class="quoted-text">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org" target="_blank">steve.dower@python.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Possibly such user-contributed content would be valuable anyway<br>
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<a href="https://alternativeto.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://alternativeto.net</a> but for PyPI? :)<br>
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Or just more general reviews/warnings/info. "Doesn't work with IronPython", "Works fine on 3.5 even though it doesn't say so", etc.<br>
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Restrict it to 140 chars, signed in users, only allow linking to other PyPI packages, let the maintainer delete comments (or mark them as disputed) and I think you'd avoid abuse (or rants/detailed bug reports/etc.). Maybe automatically clear all comments on each new release as well.<br>
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Doesn't have to be complicated and fancy - just enough that users can help each other when maintainers disappear.<div class="elided-text"><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Steve<br>
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