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

[Tres Seaver]

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Michael Sparks wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
>>
>>>> Why can't we just disable it until we can come up with a better
>>>> system that finds a balance between the rights of maintainers, and
>>>> those of the user?
>>> Because I want to wait for the outcome of the poll first.
>> There's a problem with the poll's placement: on the front page of the
>> PyPI website.
>>
>> I only know about the poll because you said there was one, and I went
>> hunting for it. The front page of PyPI is not one I ever visit, as a
>> package maintainer; I'll visit the pages for the packages I maintain, or
>> make a specific search of packages I'm looking for.
>>
>> So, the poll's audience is limited to those who visit the front page
>> (which is hardly ever necessary for package maintainers), and those who
>> already know it exists (e.g. through this discussion thread). You'll be
>> missing the opinions of those maintainers who, like the OP of this
>> thread, only discovered the behaviour much later.
> 
> This poll is only visible if you're logged into PyPI. This strikes me
> as a mistake. I went looking for a poll and didn't see it.
> 
> I only found the poll by accident by wondering randomly what might
> change if I hit the login using open id button. So you can only vote
> in the poll if you a) get told about it b) realise you need to create
> an account to login and use in order to vote. I realise there's good
> reasons for that, but I think it's a mistake. (There's no guidance
> that you need to log in to see the poll for example)

I can see the information about the poll, and a link to view the
results, without logging in.

  http://pypi.python.org/pypi

(second paragraph there).  That paragraph tells you that you need to log
in to vote in the poll.


Tres.
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