On 12/26/2009 10:00 PM, Sebastian Nowicki 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.
that is (or at least has been) a much thornier question than i think you think it is. search through this list's archives around starting around november of 2008. this might be a good starting point: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-November/002790.html some choice reading there! -kludge