On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 01:15, Christopher Barker <pythonchb@gmail.com> wrote:
Totally different topic, but I do think that a "curated" package repo would be helpful -- there is a lot of cruft on PyPi :-(
That idea gets thrown around every once in a while, but there are a few problems with it. When you "bless" one package, every other package doing a similar job will suffer, even if they are just as good (but simply haven't been added to the curated collection). If the PSF recommends a package, people will expect a lot of it, which is a huge burden on the developer(s). And someone has to go through all those packages, and then discuss it with whoever else has to be responsible for this curated collection, and come to an agreement. Instead, what I'd like to see is: Personal, individual blogs, recommending packages that the author knows about and can give genuine advice about. Provide YOUR curated collection. Then maybe a metapage on the Python Wiki could link to some useful/interesting blog posts. Decentralize! ChrisA