[Python-Dev] PyPI comments and ratings, really? (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Nov 12 22:11:03 CET 2009

Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> writes:

On 12 Nov 2009, at 17:31 , Jesse Noller wrote: > But before we even did those; why not have mandatory links for > entries to bug trackers, mailing lists, source repositories, etc? > I'm saying saying this doesn't seem well thought out, and the > current implementation is broken by design. Of course, as I said > earlier; since I don't have time to patch it; I'll simply just not > participate. I think having links to those is a very good idea and more important than a comment/notation system. They shouldn't be mandatory though, not every library has a mailing list, or even a (public anyway) bug tracker.

I think Jesse's point (or, if he's not willing to claim it, my point) is that, compared to the mandatory comment system, it makes much more sense to have a mandatory field for “URL to the BTS for this project”.

At least it can be expected that in many cases project maintainers will want to use a conventional BTS, VCS, discussion forum, etc. So that route makes more sense than a mandatory comment system outside the project maintainer's control, while providing the user-participation that is the purported motivation.

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