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

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com>wrote: > 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=9Þ >>>> räªS=Mmwüµsw> >>>> >>>> <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<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. > Is there an easy way to find software which relies on the package? I think mediawiki does (I'm not absolutely sure, but I think there's an option to use MogileFS for storage). Maybe it's something like that. Who knows. ;-) Till