Vote on PyPI comments

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 13 14:04:52 EST 2009


>> PyPI grew a commenting and rating system a while back, apparently in
>> response to requests from users. However, since it's been rolled out,
>> there's been a backlash from package maintainers who already have
>> mailing lists, bug trackers, etc for their packages and don't want to
>> have to try and keep track of yet another support forum.
>>
>
> I am skeptical about the utility of both rating and comments. If
> somebody wants to know
> if a package is good, she should ask here.

Hmm, do you really think subscribing to python-list should be a
prerequisite for people who want to have some clue which python
software they want to use?

Cheers,
Daniel

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