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My apologies to Richard, I did not realize he was involved because I've only been discussing this issue with Martin.
The problem is you are assuming that users visiting PyPI will understand that the only types of comments they should leave are ratings. My experience on other established sites is that they will leave any sort of question, comment, bug report, or whatever else they want to say...
2009-10-04 17:34:09 UTC in Python Package Index
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The comment feature cannot become a discussion forum because as an owner of a package I am not allowed to comment on it. That means anyone can post whatever message they want, and I can't do a thing about it.
Martin, as sole maintainer of PyPI you have great power over the developers who list their packages there. I can't *not* register a package I want to work with easy_install or pip because...
2009-10-04 13:20:00 UTC in Python Package Index
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I interact with PyPI mostly through distutils (i.e., not the web interface). I'm not likely to see questions or bug reports in comments on the PyPI pages for my packages unless the system pushes them to me. On the other hand, since I wrote most of the content on those pages, readers (my users) are likely to assume I do have control over all it and that I *will* see their requests for help...
2009-09-24 21:34:42 UTC in Python Package Index
