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

[Ben Finney]

Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org> writes:

> If the poll ended this moment, how would you judge? Would it just be
> mob rule (no comments)? […]

Even though that's my preferred option, I *don't* want it chosen on the
basis of a poll result, but on the basis of evidence and reasoned
argument.

> On a deeper level, why are we voting at all? When else in the history
> of Python have we used popular vote to decide questions of this
> nature?

+1

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