[Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives

[Brian Curtin]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 14:13, Kenneth Reitz <me at kennethreitz.com> wrote:
> I think the cheesehop trove classifiers would be the ideal way to
> agnostically link to a page of packages related to the standard package in
> question. No need for sort order.

Randomize the order for all I care. We still need to ensure we're
suggesting quality projects. It doesn't make sense for us to suggest
alternatives that we wouldn't want to use ourselves by just polling
some list that anyone can get on.

This is documentation that receives hundreds of thousands of views a
month*. We need to be picky about what goes in it.

> The beauty of this solution is that packages that aren't maintained won't
> add the appropriate classifier to their package, and therefore not show up
> in the list.

Just because it's maintained doesn't mean it's not garbage. I think we
really need to start every project off with a 0 and make them prove
that they're a 10. Just being active means nothing.



* http://www.python.org/webstats/usage_201202.html#TOPURLS - I don't
know what page "Documentation" means since it doesn't have a specific
link, but whatever page that is got hit 960K times in February.