Although I know that personally, I forget to vote often, there is a flaw with counting downloads: I try out a lot of packages and if they don't fit my needs, I don't want my vote/download counted. On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
I believe this was discussed on aur-dev some years ago, but it seems that discussion was lost (no longer in archives). I'd like to bring up the subject again. What do you think the best way to indicate package popularity is? The two main ideas were votes (the current implementation) and a download counter. I can't really recall which one was preferred.
The issue has been raised because we're deciding which to use in "AUR2", as a patch has been submitted to implement votes.
I'd like to know if voting works, how effective it is, and how much significance it has on a TU's decision to put a package into community. Basically whether it's "broken" and needs to be "fixed" or if it's fine the way it is.
P.S. I didn't send this to aur-dev as it doesn't really concern the developers. It's an end-user feature, and mostly a feature for TUs, so I posted here.
-- Alexander Lam