[aur-dev] Displaying stats from pkgstats
Hello, With pkgstats, we have some idea about what AUR packages are often used [*]. I think it would be interesting to display usage statistics in AUR, as it would be a good complement to the vote statistics. Are we interested in such a feature, or do you think it is unnecessary due to the existence of the vote feature ? [*] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics -- Rémy
On 3 October 2010 12:54, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
With pkgstats, we have some idea about what AUR packages are often used [*]. I think it would be interesting to display usage statistics in AUR, as it would be a good complement to the vote statistics. Are we interested in such a feature, or do you think it is unnecessary due to the existence of the vote feature ?
[*] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics
-- Rémy
IMHO this is a good idea. I could help if you want. -- andreascarpino.it Arch Linux Developer
On Sun 03 Oct 2010 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
With pkgstats, we have some idea about what AUR packages are often used [*]. I think it would be interesting to display usage statistics in AUR, as it would be a good complement to the vote statistics. Are we interested in such a feature, or do you think it is unnecessary due to the existence of the vote feature ?
Well I pkgstats may compliment votes, but they really are different stats. Pkgstats include lots of packages that are not included in the AUR, and probably some that exist in other 3rd party repos. I think it's appropriate that pkgstats has its own home. I'm not exactly sure how you would want to incorporate them into the AUR. Discussion is always welcome though, so don't be afraid to share your ideas. Cheers.
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 08:04 -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
On Sun 03 Oct 2010 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
With pkgstats, we have some idea about what AUR packages are often used [*]. I think it would be interesting to display usage statistics in AUR, as it would be a good complement to the vote statistics. Are we interested in such a feature, or do you think it is unnecessary due to the existence of the vote feature ?
Well I pkgstats may compliment votes, but they really are different stats. Pkgstats include lots of packages that are not included in the AUR, and probably some that exist in other 3rd party repos.
I think it's appropriate that pkgstats has its own home.
I'm not exactly sure how you would want to incorporate them into the AUR. Discussion is always welcome though, so don't be afraid to share your ideas. Cheers.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here and just throw something half-serious out. If one of the key characteristics of Arch is that "Arch is what you make it" doesn't pkgstats make a sort of 'oh, lots of people are using that, maybe I should to' culture prevalent? I understand the usage in deciding how dev time is allocated, but less so with the AUR where the only (correct me if I'm wrong) use would be for people to gauge the 'popularity' of a package.
2010/10/3 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>
If one of the key characteristics of Arch is that "Arch is what you make it" doesn't pkgstats make a sort of 'oh, lots of people are using that, maybe I should to' culture prevalent?
To be fair, a lot of times if a lot of people are using some software you haven't heard of, it's worth checking out. For instance, I only know about guvcview because it had a lot of votes on the AUR, and I was looking for something that would capture video correctly from my Thinkpad T410's integrated camera. I guess it _could_ promote a culture of not thinking about why you're installing a package, but frankly the type of people who do that generally don't get to the point where they're installing PKGBUILDS, in my experience.
Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun 03 Oct 2010 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
With pkgstats, we have some idea about what AUR packages are often used [*]. I think it would be interesting to display usage statistics in AUR, as it would be a good complement to the vote statistics. Are we interested in such a feature, or do you think it is unnecessary due to the existence of the vote feature ?
Well I pkgstats may compliment votes, but they really are different stats. Pkgstats include lots of packages that are not included in the AUR, and probably some that exist in other 3rd party repos.
I think it's appropriate that pkgstats has its own home.
I'm not exactly sure how you would want to incorporate them into the AUR. Discussion is always welcome though, so don't be afraid to share your ideas. Cheers.
I was thinking of adding a column when displaying search results (so that there would be two numerical columns, "Votes" and "Usage stats"). Each package would display the corresponding number fetched from the pkgstats database. The most useful thing we can do with that is probably to add these stats as a sort criterion. -- Rémy.
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Andrea Scarpino
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Jeremiah Dodds
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Loui Chang
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Ng Oon-Ee
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Rémy Oudompheng
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Rémy Oudompheng