On 12/14/19 9:55 PM, Frances Hocutt wrote:
Hello all,
While going through the wiki working on Python 3 updates, I noticed
that these two pages now stretch to hundreds of books from a single
publisher:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks
https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks
This seems like it runs into spamming/broad self-promotion more than a
usefully curated list of resources, but I'm not familiar with how this
wiki usually handles that kind of thing. Could someone more familiar
with this wiki take a look?
We do have one publisher - Packt - that keeps updating all the time.
They produce books at an astounding rate. I've looked at a fair number
and they're not useless, although they're of fairly low quality in my
personal opinion - it's a kind of "book mill".
I haven't a clue what we think we should do about them. I think we
warned them a few times about changing the sorting to put their books at
the top, and believe they stopped that and kept to the "alphabetical
order" we suggest. Beyond that... don't think we can say they're doing
something wrong. Without someone curating the list for quality, which we
don't have, it's not clear there's any actual complaint we can make.
Thanks for asking - it's a good question.
Anybody else?
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