Barry Warsaw
It would be really nice if say the Cheeseshop had a voting feature. Use PEP 10 voting to get a rough estimate of a module's popularity (download counts alone might not tell you everything). Then at least you can get a rough idea of how generally popular a module is in the wider community. Also, a module should have to live on its own two feet for while on Cheeseshop before being considered for inclusion in the stdlib.
Better yet would be something like Debian's popularity-contest mechanism (it provides opt-in voting of packages based on what is installed on your machine). popularity-contest runs from a cron job. Maybe when Python is installed it could ask if you want to submit package statistics. If so, installing a package with distutils would submit the name and version number to a central server. If we knew which batteries were most popular we could make sure they are included in the package. ;-) Neil