Re: [pear-webmaster] feature additions: most popular releases, package download rank

Firman Wandayandi wrote:

On 10/18/06, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:

Firman Wandayandi wrote:

On 10/18/06, David Coallier <davidc@php.net> wrote:

Sure, I think those are a great idea, we could even have a popular meter on the main page if the query is not too heavy or on each page we could have something like stars or something rating the package.

I agreed with David again. It would be great, but we should be take a look at the query, since the package-stats query is so heavy. I think this stuff related, so consider about it before implementing it.

Actually, with the new changes, the package stats query is quite light. I get instant performance on my machine, which is a good indicator of how it will work remotely - believe me, I have been crunching stats queries for a long time over the past 3 days :)

Alright, I believe it. I would be glad to see it live. Rocks Greg! :-D Also, is it possible to see the development activity for each package? Might be something like sf.net did. We can grab how many releases made per 3 month, also take care the bugs stat, cvs commit and soo on. Or just bad idea?

I think sourceforge's statistics seem rather arbitrary. One day, I read and closed 10 bogus bugs on phpDocumentor, and we jumped from #2000 to ranked #200, but I didn't see any spike in downloads or other stuff, so I think we might want to consider a more useful measure of activity :) Greg