feature additions: most popular releases, package download rank
| From: | Gregory Beaver | Date: | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:19:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | feature additions: most popular releases, package download rank | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.webmaster | ||
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Hi,
I would like to add 2 things to pear.php.net to help get a sense of the
most used packages, and help motivate PEAR folks to take a look at who
is using their code.
The first is to shorten the list of recent releases to 5, and add a list
of 5 of the all time most-downloaded releases, excluding superseded
packages.
The second is a download ranking to the package info page. The download
ranking would not be based upon absolute download numbers, but on how
often the package has been downloaded from its first release to now.
This way, exciting new packages could actually climb to the top of the
list quite quickly. It would work like this:
Package Information: Cache_Lite (download rank: 97 of 406)
Interestingly enough, Net_Socket is our most often downloaded package by
this measure.
Comments?
Greg