On 05:19 pm, guido at python.org wrote: >On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com> >wrote: >>Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: >>>It would be really nice if say the Cheeseshop had a voting feature. >>>Use PEP 10 voting to get a rough estimate of a module's popularity >>>(download counts alone might not tell you everything). Then at least >>>you can get a rough idea of how generally popular a module is in the >>>wider community. Also, a module should have to live on its own two >>>feet for while on Cheeseshop before being considered for inclusion in >>>the stdlib. >> >>Better yet would be something like Debian's popularity-contest >>mechanism (it provides opt-in voting of packages based on what is >>installed on your machine). popularity-contest runs from a cron >>job. Maybe when Python is installed it could ask if you want to >>submit package statistics. If so, installing a package with >>distutils would submit the name and version number to a central >>server. >> >>If we knew which batteries were most popular we could make sure they >>are included in the package. ;-) > >Whoa. Are you all suddenly trying to turn Python into a democracy? I'm >outta here if that ever happens (even if I were voted BDFL by a >majority :-). I'm sure that what Barry and Neil are recommending is the same as what I did later: a way to give our most beloved regent accurate data on the populace's current mood. Certainly we wouldn't be discussing our plans for a democratic coup out in the open like this! Clearly, that would be foolish ;-).
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