[Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, *really*?

[Georg Brandl]

R. David Murray schrieb:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 at 15:42, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Part of the pypi problem is a startup problem of initially low numbers. If 
>> the only people who bother to log in to rate are the disgruntled, then the 
>> ratings/reviews will be biased. I wonder how many of the people promoting the 
>> new feature have themselves logged in to systematically rate and possibly 
>> comment on every package they have looked at, and thereby kickstart the 
>> system with fair responses.
> 
> For what it's worth, I never look at PyPI.  I get my packages either
> through Gentoo's portage or, if it isn't there (yet), by finding the
> package's home site through Google.  So I'm a happy user of a number of
> packages, whose comments will never show up on PyPI.

The other large group of easy_install users will also never get to the
individual package pages on PyPI.

Except when they have a problem, and then they are likely to only complain
through the comments.

Georg