[core-workflow] PEP awareness statistics

[anatoly techtonik]

Hi,

In order to improve workflow it is important to collect data about
the process. Even if Python doesn't have any kind of democracy,
meritocracy or other kind of political system (well, dictatorship?),
it is nice to estimate how many people are really involved in the
process of language evolution.

For example, there is a new accepted PEP 440 which is
authored by two people (documented in PEP), and they are
are listed in credits. They definitely put a lot of work in making it
happen. Other people had less chances to monitor the progress,
and in my opinion this is the reason why handling semantic
versioning was not given enough attention - proposing to convert
versions instead of specifying mechanism for packages to
specify alternative versioning system:
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#semantic-versioning

But, my opinion is an opinion and it will stay so until it is backed
up by data that can put some weight to my words. This can be
possible if PEP pages allowed people with registered accounts
to provide structured feedback for PEP in a form of three metrics:

   % of text read     - 0 .. 100% (approximate)
   Text clarity         - 0 .. 5        (how hard to understand the text)
   PEP coverage     - 0 .. 5       (does the PEP cover your case well)
   Accept / Reject / Clarify / meh.
   Optional (reason/comment):

-- 
anatoly t.