Re: Analytics on PHP.net

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 July 2014 19:53, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 30 July 2014 14:14, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> The most commented-on-docpages are also used by the doc team to see >> what needs to be improved... That number is probably similar to the >> most accessed docpage. > > > How would someone see that data currently? https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php And there is a weekly mail to phpdoc@ >> > Things like this probably get little use because they're not known by >> > everyone. If there was something added into the VCS login, or whatever, >> > that made it a bit more visible then it will likely get more use. I've >> > lost track of the number of times something has been suggested and we >> > get >> > "Oh there's a tool for that, but no one uses it", or even worse >> > "...it's >> > been removed" - I wonder how much of this is because people aren't aware >> > of >> > their existence? >> >> >> People that work on things around here are pretty familiar with the >> availabilities.. > > > This seems very closed, which is part of the problem. Surely if there are > tools they should be made available to everyone who contributes. Most > contributors aren't able to spend vasts quantities of time on things, so > these sorts of metrics could be invaluable. I'm not sure a simple link is > asking too much... Then lets create a readme file or a wiki page? -Hannes