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

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:38, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

GroupURL        /doc/*          Documentation

So it's anything that's in www.python.org/doc/. I don't believe it counts
doc.python.org and docs.python.org.

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