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

From: Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:18:34 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] "Popular Packages"
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Hi Michael, On 31.10.2011 17:45, Michael Gauthier wrote:
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.
We are talking not "thousands", but 150K deployments a month (look at the graph!). And with zero feedback from those who supposedly deploy it. Looks more like a botnet than a cloud. :-D

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