[core-workflow] PEP awareness statistics

[Guido van Rossum]

I like the idea of adding feedback buttons to the website (not just the
PEPs). I'm not sure how much you can get people vote with that much though.
Maybe just a yes/no (like MSDN does) or a star-rating (1-5)?


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:48 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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