[Python-Dev] comments vs spam in PyPI [was: eggs now mandatory for pypi?] (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Oct 6 08:09:55 CEST 2009

P.J. Eby <pje telecommunity.com> writes:

For example, having a packages reddit (nb: open source, written in Python), where people can upvote or downvote packages and leave comments. That's probably the minimum amount of checks and balances required to avoid problems of the sort the PyPI commenting feature is already having, since others will be able to reply to the comments, and downvote nonsense into oblivion.

Seems like a reasonable idea, given that there's already a Python reddit which seems popular. There was also www.cheeserater.com (which appears down at the moment) which was a Django demo site (source available at http://github.com/jacobian/cheeserater) for rating PyPI packages.

I just created a "cheeseshop" sub-reddit to play around with.

(Alternatively, shutting off the comment system would also work. Nothing stops people from using Google to search for "foo sucks" or "problems using foo" if they want to research what's been said about a package.)

Yes, but it's good to have all the feedback in one place, if possible.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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