On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Kennedy Skelton <kiirani@gmail.com> wrote:
For statistical purposes, would it not make sense to have the system record when a vote was submitted and package version information at the time, but still display a full vote count? That way consideration could still be made based on a general vote count, but a clearly visible lack of votes in the last year or two could be used to ascertain whether it is still considered as useful, as perhaps the lack of new votes means another package has replaced and surpassed its functionality.
I suppose you also have to keep in mind existing users. You can't vote more than once so what if a package has a fairly large but stable userbase? No new votes but a definite need for the package. -- Callan Barrett