Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] "Popular Packages"

From:	Michael Gauthier	Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:45:57 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] "Popular Packages"
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On 2011-10-30 07:19, Alexey Borzov wrote:

Also WTF is File_Mogile? Does it really have 100K downloads a month or is this creative approach to foreign key constraints? http://pear.php.net/package-**stats.php?pid=843&cid=9<http://pear.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=843&cid=9> I dunno - it's a client for http://danga.com/mogilefs/ ; and obviously
there's a lot of people pushing applications into the cloud; plus someone is running off writing a pecl extension too. It's vaguely conceivable
It just looks fishy that this package has around the same number of downloads as PEAR installer itself. With *zero* bug reports and feature requests throughout its history: http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=File_Mogile&status=All Are these legitimate downloads (even if automated somehow) or DB corruption? It's possible that downloading the package from from PEAR is part of someone's cloud deployment script. It's not strange to have thousands of deployments a month. I blame Digg.

Cheers, Mike