feature additions: most popular releases, package download rank

From: 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is to shorten the list of recent releases to 5, and add a list of 5 of the all time most-downloaded releases, excluding superseded packages.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

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